Digital Warfare

Sup y'all. Dagron's finally back. I was locked out (literally) of my computer earlier this week due to a HORRIBLE virus which resulted in my computer to be infected beyond belief. Heres what happened: I woke up Tuesday morning and turned on the laptop only to notice Windows had detected a virus intrusion. I did what I always do; immediatly started scanning with various anti-virus programs that I got at hand. Within 10 mins from the start of the scan, the virus had successfully infiltrated into the main OS programming, and started to tamper with system files. Before the anti-virus scans could even finish, all running programs are forced shut down, resulting in this image on my desktop: 

What followed were various pop-up screens of what appeared to be subscriptions to anti-virus programs that claim they can get rid of the many spyware and adwares/virus known to date. Included was windows upon windows full with fill-out forms that asks for credit card number and other personal information, which obviously if given, will be worse than the virus itself. So I reacted instinctively; unplugged the internet cable, and quickly plugged my external harddrive and began copying whatevers left in my harddrive. Another 5 mins passed, and I successfully manage to save 80% of whats on my infected partition drive (which I parted into 2).

After that, it's been a hard road trying to remove the virus manually. Finally, after a day of unsuccessful curing, I had to declare the death of my beloved laptop. What followed was the painful sound of my disk drive spinning away reinstalling my XP OS. 

Sad day. Worst virus infection I've encountered. 

Since then, I've been trying to see if any of my personal information has been leaked by potential hackers. So far, so good. Fingers crossed. 

rOar