melchar: medieval raccoon girl (toidy_kitty)
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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]

Date: 2011-10-06 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melchar.livejournal.com
My guess is that the virus detector saw some common driver and its miniscule 'mind' decided 'virus!!!' - and removed everything with that driver set.

3 hours and things are working again. ....Except for 'Bioshock'. And my screen icons are transparent. [bwuh?] Other than that, things are back to normal.

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