I feel SO defended

[melchar]

Saw an alert on Windows defender and - like an idiot - let it 'repair' the vastly dangerous virus it claimed to have detected. It removed my dsl network connect; removed Firefox - but left IE - removed Thunderbird - all of which I've managed to find and replace shortcuts for.

Still among the missing is my connection to NC Soft [City of Heroes shortcut]; 2 of 4 shortcuts to games on Aeria.com; the Emerald viewer [used to access 2nd Life]; and shortcuts for $ games fully installed on the machine [Alpha C, Bioshock; Baldur's Gate 2 & Baldur's Gate 1]

Comments

[maestrodog.livejournal.com]

Maybe late to suggest after all the work you've done...but did you not try a system restore to a previous configuration?

[melchar.livejournal.com]

My last system restore was [my bad] 2 years ago. I have all my -files- backed up as of last week - but that does nothing for shortcuts and making the programs work. For reinstalling, I was all set up. [sighs]

[maestrodog.livejournal.com]

ick...well, now you know to set your restore points at more frequent intervals once you've got everything back...it really sucks when this happens. I set mine to back up weekly.