Virus
So much for my grand plans for the December daily. My computer had been acting weird but neither Norton or spybot found anything so I figured it was a hardware issue and kept using it. Then on Wednesday morning while using it my screen turned bright lime green and flashed I had a virus in purple lettering. Instead of running Norton I unplugged my network cable and restarted it. Much to my dismay every time I entered my log in info it would act like it was going to load and then take me back to the screen to enter my log in name and password again. I tied for hours to get into it but nothing worked.
After much frustration and even a little crying I called my husband to hear what I knew was the only option: FORMAT. I hated the thought because despite having a server I am very bad about backing my stuff up and I lost a lot! Pictures, tax files, my website, legal documents, scrapbook stuff, e-books the list goes on and on. My biggest fear was I had lost my photos from our recent trip to Ohio and the ones I took of Syd and the boys right before she left. I had scanned a bunch of photos from my grandmas childhood and my moms and the thought of loosing those made me sick. I debated on rather or not to even go to church that night. I just wanted to be alone to sulk. The boys came in and knew how upset I was, they instantly went to work making me laugh and trying not to think about my loss.
When Scott came home he got to work on my pc and we headed to church. He stayed home from church because he had gone into work at 4:45 am and worked until 3:00 pm. He set the OS to install and then went to bed; by the time the boys and I got home he had it formatted and almost everything reinstalled.
I went to bed that night still upset over the loss of so much but in the middle of the night I remembered making a cd of my grandmas pictures and of the ones with Syd and the boys. I was so excited I could hardly wait to jump out of bed and make sure. When I did get up I got the disc loaded it onto my pc and then the server. Seriously, I have backed up to the server nightly what ever I have worked on that day. I still have a lot more to go and do not even want to think about reentering all the receipts and business stuff for taxes but a little at at a time and it will get caught back up.
After much frustration and even a little crying I called my husband to hear what I knew was the only option: FORMAT. I hated the thought because despite having a server I am very bad about backing my stuff up and I lost a lot! Pictures, tax files, my website, legal documents, scrapbook stuff, e-books the list goes on and on. My biggest fear was I had lost my photos from our recent trip to Ohio and the ones I took of Syd and the boys right before she left. I had scanned a bunch of photos from my grandmas childhood and my moms and the thought of loosing those made me sick. I debated on rather or not to even go to church that night. I just wanted to be alone to sulk. The boys came in and knew how upset I was, they instantly went to work making me laugh and trying not to think about my loss.
When Scott came home he got to work on my pc and we headed to church. He stayed home from church because he had gone into work at 4:45 am and worked until 3:00 pm. He set the OS to install and then went to bed; by the time the boys and I got home he had it formatted and almost everything reinstalled.
I went to bed that night still upset over the loss of so much but in the middle of the night I remembered making a cd of my grandmas pictures and of the ones with Syd and the boys. I was so excited I could hardly wait to jump out of bed and make sure. When I did get up I got the disc loaded it onto my pc and then the server. Seriously, I have backed up to the server nightly what ever I have worked on that day. I still have a lot more to go and do not even want to think about reentering all the receipts and business stuff for taxes but a little at at a time and it will get caught back up.
Labels: December Daily, Family
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