so basically your motherboard bios got flashed .your hard disk which was
fine was sold back to your vendor ?
And you got cheated...
But you didn't learn from the experience.
you didn't buy an antivirus package which could be fast and easily
updated....
You changed your system date in the faint hope that it would protect you
from viruses.
Well that is not a solution.What happens if you get infected again ?
You will still lose all your data..
Get an antivirus package....and don't execute downloaded stuff from the
net unless you have scanned them with it using the latest signatures.
Cheerio
Robin
Suraj Kumar wrote:
>
> The BIOS got overwritten, All partitions got corrupted i.e. got deleted, HDD
> never got formatted again etc etc. I was a newbie in the field of computers and
> could not find any genious around to help me out and AFAIK my assembler/Vendor
> cheated me. What could I do at that time except to give him Rs.2300 /- more and
> get a replacement.
> Boo Hoo Hoo
> Suraj Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Chatterjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [LIH] modem speed
>
> > By the way how did cih physically trash your hard disk ?
> > CAn it actually do this ? I thought that some viruses can flash your
> > mobo bios, but how do you destry a harddisk before its mtbf in software
> > ?
> > I'm sure there Is something wrong in this statement.
> > Cheerio
> > Robin
> >
> >
> > Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > With all Due Respect,
> > > I have posted this para a million times in LIH that,
> > >
> > > "I have Altered my system date to an older date because I have an internal
> > > Creative modem (read Costly) which I have not been able to configure or make
> it
> > > work under Linux because it simply does not respond to the Modem Query at
> port
> > > /dev/ttyS3 (COM 4) hence I am forced to use $doze for Internet Surfing and
> mail
> > > management and I have already suffered a loss of Rs.5000/- way back in
> 1998(26
> > > April,1998 to be precise) when my PC was hit by Win.CIH Virus and my 4.3 GB
> HDD
> > > had to be thrown out in the Garbage(including the data if it was still there
> on
> > > it). So I now give myself a "room" of about 2-years by changing my system
> date."
> > > Suraj Kumar
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rohit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:04 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [LIH] modem speed
> > >
> > > > Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Before you write anything, my dear Suraj, correct your
> > > > system date. It is showing some time in 1998. If you
> > > > are 'back to the future', I urge you to go back. You
> > > > are way ahead of your time.
> > > >
> > > > Rohit
> > > >
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