Woo is me

or is it ..

working in IT you would think that of all people you would test new hardware beign used for backup

when backing up you would copy data rather than move .. yes I know I know .. dont move ..

well I did and have discoved a great utility for recovery

those that know me I am loath to pay when I can get for free .. and this tool .. although cut down from the full product is superb .. when you have moved nearly 30gbs of data and the heads on the hard drive fail well you need something to help out .. and this certainly helps

Granted the data was not on the Os partition and I could install the software on the os partition and run it off the data partition, and recover onto a new drive

have tested multiple files docs video etc and all appear fine

so Thumbs up from me on this superb little tool

after all that here is the link to Handyrecovery (browse on down half way for the freeware)

Ransom Virus – Warning to all

Ok so we are all used to getting spammed by mail proporting to give us riches or enhance our abilities with our loved ones 

but a word of warning to all, there is a new variant of a virus that has been floating around for a while and is activated by users clicking on attachments from unknown senders ..

here is some tech knowledge and links on how to get past this

From MSNBC comes this article 

A discription from a Gnu board .. with links to pc mag and symantec (take note of when this was posted 2005) 

Credible Fix from Sophos

From Feb 2006 .. word of warning from the Korea Times 

From Network Associates .. their description 

and Finally from Securiteams website .. about half way down ..  

as always . best way to protect your self is keep your antivirus uptodate .. your operating system upto date and scan scan regularly