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Can I send these guys a really really NASTY virus, huh, Daddy? Can I? Can I?
Right, let's start with the good news. Yesterday I found, among various CDs of giveaway software I had acquired over the years, one dated not too far back (July 2009) and including a free full version of a little-known antivirus, VIPRE. I loaded it, hoping that the nuisance malware that was haunting my computer (and incidentally making me unable to access any antivirus download site) were not too new for it. Well, it took several hours, but by this morning the malware was largely defeated and no longer interfered wth my accessing security sites.
Among the detritus that I managed to keep during the forced move there are a few hard drives from previous computers, which I had unwisely stripped of their data. They were not, however, formatted, and I found a CD that claimed to have a full file-recovering program. So I hooked up the old HDs and placed the software CD in my CD port, and figured out how it worked. And it worked like a charm.
It delivered over four gigabytes of deleted data - in the shape of dozens of proprietary files. And then it informed me that I had to pay forty pounds to the magazine that originally published it, to be able to convert the proprietary files into their original, readable format.
Among the detritus that I managed to keep during the forced move there are a few hard drives from previous computers, which I had unwisely stripped of their data. They were not, however, formatted, and I found a CD that claimed to have a full file-recovering program. So I hooked up the old HDs and placed the software CD in my CD port, and figured out how it worked. And it worked like a charm.
It delivered over four gigabytes of deleted data - in the shape of dozens of proprietary files. And then it informed me that I had to pay forty pounds to the magazine that originally published it, to be able to convert the proprietary files into their original, readable format.
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