It's because of that moving shay, Actually sorry to hear that Walt!!

Modeling the NYC railroad

(Not Yet Completed Railroad)



Phil

Wish it was that easy NYC!

I downloaded a file with some JPG files in it last night. When I opened one of the JPEGs out popped this program which infected my system by turning off all security. No matter what I did I could not get any security programs to stay running more that 30 seconds. This meant my system was wide open to attach. This is a new technique called "camoflage" which isn't detected by most anti-virus software.

I searched and found some files that didn't look like they belonged because of the date and time there were entered. I deleted them to no avail. I then removed all security programs and re-installed them.

Unfortunately Black Ice's new release does not work well with NT 4.0, I had forgot. My system kept crashing with the Blue Screen of Death!

So I had a old backup image of the drive so I reloaded that. Problem is it was October 2001 and I have added tons of new software sense then. Now I'm in the midst of reloading all that software and configuring the system.

I just received Drive Image 2002 and it will allow me to make boot drive images IN Windows, something I couldn't do before and image to a PCMCIA drive, again something I couldn't do before. I'm on a laptop for a workstation with two servers on line plus another laptop for my wife all on one network.

I use to have to backup to Iomega ZIP drives (1mb size) so it took 25 disks to make a backup. Then I had to combine them in to 650mb files to put onto a series of CD so I could re-image on the road if I needed to. Even at that it takes 2 hours.

Now I also have a 60GB hard drive attached through a PCMCIA card so this should go a lot faster.... I'm about to test it! Wish me luck!

Rusty Stumps




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I hope you're back up and running soon, Walt. I have an email to send you but I'll wait until you've got everything all cleaned up.

Mike

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm a busy man. I have a railroad to run.



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Was the email from someone that you knew? If not, let us know what this file looked like so that we can be on the lookout for it. Hope that you get things squared away. From someone who's hardrive was erased twice this year already, I know what you are going through. To everyone else out there - Frequently Save Your Work! (some advice)

Russ

Hey Mike I'm up and running already just have a lot more software to get back on the system. This is my main unit and the drive image I had was old so I had to remove then add the new software. All my Email addresses, all 100, are still working ok!

Russ: It was a downloaded file from a news service that contained some JPEG files. When one of the JPG files was opened that's what started the process. There isn't presently a software package out there that can defeat this type of malisious program. It's not a real virus so anti-virus software doesn't see it. It's a program that once run on your unit sits in the background and shuts down all your security when you start it. Best solution is to rebuild the computer.

This is why I use Power Quest Drive Image 2002. I will now periodically make a boot drive back up, like once a week. If something goes wrong I can fully restore the drive in about an hour and that's a 15GB drive. I do a lot of instructing and have to have various pieces of software on my unit. Most versions don't like a new or previous version on the computer so that's why I got into doing a drive image. I can then put the software on play with it in class then restore the original drive when class is done.

Rusty Stumps

Now if you'd just clean the wheels on that durn Shay!

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Watch it Bucks! I'm thinking of adding steam exhaust or maybe the engineer running after the dang blang thing!

Rusty Stumps