Tony Blews » anti-virus http://www.tonyblews.co.uk Jack of all, master of none Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:03:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Coincidence Virus Kills My Files http://www.tonyblews.co.uk/2009/04/coincidence-virus-kills-my-files/ http://www.tonyblews.co.uk/2009/04/coincidence-virus-kills-my-files/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:10:54 +0000 Tony http://www.tonyblews.co.uk/?p=340 Call it the Conficker Virus, or call it coincidence, but my aged 2003 Microshit Office installation fell over today, killing off my email. After a re-install I found that none of my word documents would open. Hmm.

So, after restoring from Sunday’s backups and finding them still un-openable, I’ve swapped to OpenOffice. Now all is well.

The only reason I haven’t switched completely to something better than XP, like Ubuntu GNU/Linux, is that Live for Speed needs windows…..

And yes, I am current on all XP fixes and twiddles, and my anti-virus software is tip-top.

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So, idiots, here is a declaration: If AVG has screwed up your computer, don’t ask me to fix it. You deserve all you get.

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