Just hours before a final, I got a virus that slipped by the scanner....
What a nightmare. It destroyed my start menu, shortcuts,.... It hid all the files on the hard drives. At first I thought it had wiped the drives. It wouldn't even let task manager or system explorer start.
After a little digging, it came to me. I copied system explorer to a.exe. Then the virus allowed it to start. It wasn't smart enough to look at program signatures, only the running name. Once system explorer started, I was able to find the running program that was blocking everything and kill it. Then I removed that program. Updated the virus signatures and scanned the disk.
Now to unhide the files...... Quickest way I knew of was to start a command prompt and use the attrib command with recursion. Voila, files back.
I was able to use the laptop for taking the final.
After the final, I finished resetting file attributes and rebuilt my start menu.
At that point I was so glad to have multiple backups. I was very afraid that I was going to be rebuilding a system from scratch. But my important data was backed up.
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