(PS3) Customs and Stocks Championship - Tracks set.
Jun 15, 2015 10:22:29 GMT
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Post by marklyell on Jun 15, 2015 10:22:29 GMT
FML.
So, yesterday I'm sitting hotlapping in my Gauntlet to work out lap count for the muscle round of the Customs and Stocks championship when I get a phonecall asking me to go into work to cover a shift.
So, I'm three hours into a mundane shift when my phone starts beeping that god awful sound it makes when I get a PSN message on the Playstation app, and I've got two messages from NoDos asking me why I've left the crew and the forums, which was news to me.
Anyway, the short version is, I had left my PC on downloading some stuff when I went to work (inb4 porn jokes etc.) and when I got home, my PC was a trainwreck of viruses - I mean, literally everything had gone wrong. Seven (yes seven) forums that I'm a member of, my account has been deleted on. Pretty much any website where I had an account, it's been deleted and on certain websites where the virus couldn't delete my account (like my Google accounts etc.) it's done a sort of factory reset on my account. For example, all of my Youtube subscriptions were deleted, all of my subreddits were gone, all of the emails in my gmail accounts have been deleted (thankfully nothing super important was there).
I'm just so glad that I do all of my online banking on my phone, but I've contacted my bank and asked them to be watchful for any suspicious activity. Anyway, this morning I've been performing a fix on my PC which involved booting my PC into DOS and tinkering with the windows registry and so far it seems to have worked and I think (touch wood) the virus has been removed.
Anyway, now I need to wait for the purge to rejoin NoDo, so I'm going to be repping the hipster no crew tag until the 22nd
lol.
From what I can figure out about the virus, basically it completely ravaged my PC's registry and was able to gain control of my browsers and delete any entries which held information about my various online accounts and was able to delete a large number of them. I'm still in the process of checking which accounts I need to restore and which ones have just been reset rather than deleted.
The moral of this story is, don't leave your PC on downloading shit when you go to work - bad bad things can happen.
So, yesterday I'm sitting hotlapping in my Gauntlet to work out lap count for the muscle round of the Customs and Stocks championship when I get a phonecall asking me to go into work to cover a shift.
So, I'm three hours into a mundane shift when my phone starts beeping that god awful sound it makes when I get a PSN message on the Playstation app, and I've got two messages from NoDos asking me why I've left the crew and the forums, which was news to me.
Anyway, the short version is, I had left my PC on downloading some stuff when I went to work (inb4 porn jokes etc.) and when I got home, my PC was a trainwreck of viruses - I mean, literally everything had gone wrong. Seven (yes seven) forums that I'm a member of, my account has been deleted on. Pretty much any website where I had an account, it's been deleted and on certain websites where the virus couldn't delete my account (like my Google accounts etc.) it's done a sort of factory reset on my account. For example, all of my Youtube subscriptions were deleted, all of my subreddits were gone, all of the emails in my gmail accounts have been deleted (thankfully nothing super important was there).
I'm just so glad that I do all of my online banking on my phone, but I've contacted my bank and asked them to be watchful for any suspicious activity. Anyway, this morning I've been performing a fix on my PC which involved booting my PC into DOS and tinkering with the windows registry and so far it seems to have worked and I think (touch wood) the virus has been removed.
Anyway, now I need to wait for the purge to rejoin NoDo, so I'm going to be repping the hipster no crew tag until the 22nd
lol.From what I can figure out about the virus, basically it completely ravaged my PC's registry and was able to gain control of my browsers and delete any entries which held information about my various online accounts and was able to delete a large number of them. I'm still in the process of checking which accounts I need to restore and which ones have just been reset rather than deleted.
The moral of this story is, don't leave your PC on downloading shit when you go to work - bad bad things can happen
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Zjuulke has been quiet for a day 