A lesson to us all. Glad you survived ;-)<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 June 2011 13:19, Robert Hind <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@yinnar.com">robert@yinnar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I have just recovered from a massive attack that
rendered my laptop totally unuseable. Involving "Vista Antispyware"</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Thank goodness I had recently puchased backup
software and, at the end of May, had backed up my whole system to a usb external
hard drive and also created a bootable CD to restore my
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I have Symantec Antivirus running and also SpyBot
and Lavasoft's Adaware. But still the bastard got through.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Now "recovered" and seem to be working
OK.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Happy computing all!</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Robert Hind (Semi-retired) OOF, GOM (Thanks
Kent!)<br>Ashwood and Traralgon<br><a href="mailto:robert@yinnar.com" target="_blank">robert@yinnar.com</a></font></div>
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