A Month Of Absence With Trojan
I’m a part time blogger but when my computer got infected with trojan virus from my son’s USB , all my attention caught up with battling trojan. My fault, I’m not aware that my antivirus settings was not automatically updated. That was mistake #1.
Mistake #2, I don’t have Windows recovery disk. It came to a point that I have to format my computer.
Mistake #3, my drivers were not updated. Viruses are variety of trojans, backdoor , commwarrior, worms and other spywares infected my pc. I’m not sure what virus or worm change my drivers that also caused errors.
Mistake #4, I didn’t setup email account for instant blog posts.
It took me 3 days to backup my files when I’m sure that were no virus already. Installed Windows XP was already damage so I have to clean format my pc. It was unfortunate that when I was in the process of formatting, I noticed something weird. I have UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). Normally, when I turn on UPS, I will wait for a few seconds before I turn on my computer. During formatting and installing softwares, there were times that I have to restart computer. When I turned on UPS, computer started at the same time. I thought, the problem was the software and not the hardware.
I brought my pc to in-house computer technician at the nearest mall. The power supply (inside the computer) was damage and motherboard was also affected. I was using Pentium 4 then, instead of buying the same motherboard, I bought a motherboard compatible for Pentium Dual Core processor, 1GB RAM, power supply. I don’t have plan of upgrading the computer that time but for me that was the right thing to do. Next target to buy: video card, dvd writer, 2GB RAM.
Well, learning lessons the hard way again. FYI, the good thing was I still have my handyphone to read emails and look for guides on computer problem I’ve encountered.
I’m happy that I’m finally back! Give me some time to update some posts, approve and answer comments. I’m also thinking of changing my template. Cheers!
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Hi there,
This post reminded me the same tragedy that I went through last year…I was forced to format my hard disk and all my data was gone in the wind except the one that I backed up in DVDs. Since then I stepped the security of my PC to “Z” level (Installed Net Studio USB firewall, Avast antivirus, Threatfire firewall, Spyware Doctor antispyware, disabled all autorun commands through Group Policy Editor). And these measures paid off, I have not got infected since then despite being online 24 hours. One more thing, Windows XP is more prone to be infected with viruses than Vista so it is better to use Vista to be more secure. I thought to share my experiences with you so that you may benefit…..Additionally your blog is quite informative and I am a regular reader…..keep it up
Thanks Technomedic. I’m using now kaspersky internet security and updated windows hotfix. I agree with autorun softwares, the virus my son have from his usb is an autorun virus. Whew! I made a separate account for my kids disollowing them to install whatever program they want or they got somewhere using their usb.