XP holding me to ransome

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Same here.

If ubuntu had any office software that actually worked I'd be laughing, seems openoffice and the like are fine for the person who does next to nothing, or the uber-geek who does everything... but complete sh*te for the person who's about in the middle!

Only other thing I use windoze for is solidworks.

If you must use Windows Chris, have a play with VirtualBox - runs windows inside your Ubuntu install.

+1 for Malwarebytes
I had a "Windows Recovery" ransomeware on my computer that hid all my files and programs this morning.

I downloaded Malwarebytes and followed the instructions off their website to get rid of the problem and then downloaded an .exe off the website to unhide everything. Took me three hours! but I am hopefully clear and up and running again.

I downloaded it from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...ndows-recovery which had all the insturction on what to do on their page.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by urbane1

+1 for Malwarebytes
I had a "Windows Recovery" ransomeware on my computer that hid all my files and programs this morning.

I downloaded Malwarebytes and followed the instructions off their website to get rid of the problem and then downloaded an .exe off the website to unhide everything. Took me three hours! but I am hopefully clear and up and running again.

I downloaded it from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...ndows-recovery which had all the insturction on what to do on their page.

Personally I would back up my data and do a reformat/reinstall

But then I am paranoid that way.

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Personally I would back up my data and do a reformat/reinstall

But then I am paranoid that way.

+ 1

reformat your hard drive/reinstall windows, get it up all up and running, configure and install all your programs ect ect, then take an image of the Hard Drive.
Next time you happen to get infected reformat and reload the image.
But always keep a backup or two of your important data on an external drive or some form of media and transfer back across.

I recommend http://clonezilla.org/ for a free quite simple to use utility.