Tink Initialisation

So its been 8 months since I got my new computer and its now needed it’s first format. I’m a little annoyed because the virus that I got was a nasty bugger. It replaced my Explorer.exe with it’s own version and installed several clones of winlogin, services and lsass which means I can’t easily stop them. The reason I ended up formatting rather than cleaning is that because my XP explorer was now a virus, anything I looked at/touched could have it’s contents read/modified. It’s a pretty nasty virus. What was noticeable was that it changed a lot of files in the explorer window so I couldn’t see the file extension or get into the window options to change it.

So I’m behind on my graphics assignment because I need to get linux working on my computer. The assignment doesn’t seem to work on my MacBook so instead of stuffing around for hours and hours I’m just going to install linux on my computer, with XP and may as well put Vista on there and give it a try.

So apparently the best way to install all three is described at this page. But So far I’ve just installed Vista, I think Vista overwrote the XP boot manager. Life’s tough.

I thought I had an issue with installing Vista (big surprise). After a reboot during the installation the bold text says “Completing Installation” but it stayed there for about half an hour. I ended up removing the network cable just in case it was trying to do something over the internet (No access without logging into a web page) which would of slowed down the installer waiting for time outs and such. I had enough time after that to open my laptop and do a google and found nothing really relevant so I ended up leaving it and eventually it restarted with no troubles. I had troubles when I initially installed vista on this computer when I got it, faulty ram had me so confused for a week or two.

Because of this virus, I’m considering turning my computer in to a games only computer and get one of the new 24″ imacs for uni work and everything else. The source of the virus was probably from getright because as soon as it loaded to try and download parallels then my computer restart, this happened a few times before I uninstalled getright. Also it could of come from my usb drive which goes around the place and had a funny file on it which I clicked on for some reason. I formatted it to be sure anyway. The last place it could of come from is over the network, with over 400 personal computers on The Kensington Colleges network, and many of these international students, a nasty virus could easily be introduced at anytime.

The signs for this virus are, if you see the file extensions for some files but not others, its a possibility.  If tools or edit, can’t remember now, doesn’t have an options section then your explorer.exe has been changed. If you bring up task manager and you have winlogin, lsass or services running as your user name then thats also a sign of this virus, none of these things should happen on a virus free computer.

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