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I admit I was stupid and rash

BUT WHY does the internet have to punish me so harshly? I was so keen to 'web up' after a long period of not interweb that I forgot to install my fire wall FIRST. Left the PC on for an hour. Now I want to wipe it all. It got really covered in crap. Lots of poop. 7 dvds worth of mp3s to be backedup first though.

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 21:59, archived)

bugger

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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:00, archived)

tell me about it!

I looked at the machine and realised I had been hording software. Loads of stuff I never use, so I might as well wipe it all and start again. THat will be 240gig to format. I hope windows does not screw me, I really do.

It will be fun, I keep telling myself.

I am in the land of BURN EVERYTHING now. (In a good way.)

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:01, archived)

god help me if ever need to back up and reinstall, i've only got a cdr drive

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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:03, archived)

may I suggest investing in some razor blades and a thermos flask...

just in case...

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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:03, archived)

erm, my computer is really close to the kitchen

i won't be re-formatting it up a mountain :)

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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:05, archived)

^ this

even with a dvd burner, I have about 600+gigs of stuff

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:05, archived)

time for a removable hard-drive

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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:07, archived)

oh, I have some of those too.

Luckily, it's all devided over 5 physical drives

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:09, archived)

so far, 7 dvds of mp3s

I have decided to just delete all my stuff and start afresh. I will burn lots of files and "borrow" the software again. All the important stuff anyway.

Then I can have fun downloading lots of new games, instead of filling up my HD with lots of ones I don't play.

Oh and there is Visual Studio of course.

I am sure most people would benifit from a fresh start. Hording takes over your life.

:)

(I am trying to look on the bright side, honest)

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:08, archived)

7 dvds of mp3s makes about 32GB

I have a little more than that ;)

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:10, archived)

he he

show off.
my is select goodness.
not that that that that makes me feel any less envious

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:11, archived)

just looked

it's 160GB of pure mp3 goodness

most of which isn't shit

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:15, archived)

good plan

my hard drive is a complete mess
lots and lots of 'untitled folders' full of source pics for b3ta, totally disorganised

10

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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:11, archived)

I was looking

at my machine and there is just loads of crap I dl and never used. The fun part was getting it. I have promised myself I will be tidy next time. AND get rid of my stupid 10gig windows partition.

ha ha haha

tidy computer

haha thats a good one

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:14, archived)

this time, try putting all the important stuff on other partitions than c:

makes format/reinstall a lot easier

and don't forget the service packs and the other patches

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pzyko Query failed., Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:14, archived)

yeah

did that,
but I think all the crap is in lots of places.
I dont trust anyof it, i just want to start again. Sacrifice to the god of interweb

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:18, archived)

good speed

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pzyko Query failed., Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:23, archived)

get an external hard drive

and periodically back up the entire internal hard drive.
I use a Western Digital MyBook Essential 250GB. I think it was about 65 quid. (they come in bigger sizes)

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finnbar has officially retired, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:19, archived)

sounds nasty to be honest :-(

never a good thing, hope you get it sorted, have this to make you smile :-)

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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:02, archived)

I am trying,

I ran:
Netguard.
Windows Defender
Stinger
Adaware
RootkitRevealer
and had a good hard google of my processes. All the software says everything is fine...now, they each removed about 300 items. BUT this folder called C:\uploads keeps appearing on my c drive and filling up with lots of zips.

I think its time for a format monkey.

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:04, archived)

hmmm, possibly, probably worth it to make sure at least

meh

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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:06, archived)

yep

its about "trust" I find. If I want to trust the machine I have to wipe it.

otherwise ill be looking over my shoulder the whole time

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:09, archived)

Lucky I have this little laptop to tide me over. Fighting "The Good woman" for time on it though. :)

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:05, archived)

After one hour I am surprised your PC isn't useless

I switched off my firewall for 5 minutes and had to reinstall.

I know somebody who works at an ISP. They removed a server from the firewall and were hit (badly) within 5 seconds.

It's a big bad world out there... good luck!

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Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:02, archived)

people are cunts

it's a maxim i live by

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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:04, archived)

That's unfortunate

but lessons learned the hard way are the ones you remember :-)

It is a source of endless annoyance that there are cretins out there whose only purpose in coding is to fuck up your PC.

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finnbar has officially retired, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:04, archived)

I agree.

I think we should give them all jobs stabbing each other in the eye

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:06, archived)

What?

Firewall?

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davew27 hevosen kuva!, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:06, archived)

Yep

Been there , licked the mirror, got the badge. You'll never do it again (well, you might).

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Mod Edit, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:06, archived)

if I dont learn

If I dont learn from this I have promised myself that I will become a lumberjack and never touch a computer (ham) again.

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:10, archived)

Fdisk/reformat

you know you love it.

Just a thought, most B3TARDs seem to have some idea about computers. Just think about what's going on in the "real" world.

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Mod Edit, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:17, archived)

Buy a NAT router

and block all incomming connections.

(Mr Dan is the man, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:08, archived)

NATing is only part of the problem

I'm not saying don't do it - do.

But don't mistake it for a firewall, it's not.

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Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:14, archived)

Looking at it

Why are all my folders called

*something*_stuff

how dumb

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:17, archived)

I feel for you

I built home machine (clean XP install) and thought OK I can afford to download Installshield first.
Nope.
Fucked before I found the download.
Fortunately I only had to start OS install again, no data loss... but I feel for you.

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Want Bartender Time gentlemen please.., Mon 11 Dec 2006, 22:40, archived)

C drive currently formatting

I was annoyed that I dont have the sata drivers on floppy to install and change which drive my c is on. BUT i also realised, I dont have a flopy drive.

could have done a cd...hmm....
all data gone now, so sod it. I have backed up what I have and have to hope for the best.

woooooooo

thank you for your kind words though

I am behind a firewall now, installed after fnock. SO hopefully it will all be fine from now on.

+manic laugh+

(beard looking less like a homeless everyday, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 23:27, archived)