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Dec. 3rd, 2014
The would have been the title of my last post, if I'd watched the episode of Futurama I saw before posting it instead of after.
Did a random scan of my computer today, and it found some malware. I do scans all the time and they almost never find anything, so I'm a little worried that malware/adware from before is still lurking around. Plus my laptop was running hella slow yesterday, although I did have a few youtube videos open at the time. Still. My antivirus software suggests running Windows in Safe Mode and scanning again - after a number of experiments I have determined I don't know how to restart Windows in Safe Mode on my laptop. Pressing F8 didn't seem to ever do anything, and there was nothing helpful in my Samsung Recovery software either. The other option suggested is restoring to a previous version of the hard drive, which seems a little drastic since I don't know if anything's actually wrong.
Q: If you think you might have a virus on your computer, are you safe to back up any files? Like if it's just a word document and it looks uncorrupted is it probably safe, or are you risking just spreading the virus to other machines? I have some writing I'd rather not lose in restoring a previous copy of the hard drive, if I don't have to.
( The Apprentice )
Did a random scan of my computer today, and it found some malware. I do scans all the time and they almost never find anything, so I'm a little worried that malware/adware from before is still lurking around. Plus my laptop was running hella slow yesterday, although I did have a few youtube videos open at the time. Still. My antivirus software suggests running Windows in Safe Mode and scanning again - after a number of experiments I have determined I don't know how to restart Windows in Safe Mode on my laptop. Pressing F8 didn't seem to ever do anything, and there was nothing helpful in my Samsung Recovery software either. The other option suggested is restoring to a previous version of the hard drive, which seems a little drastic since I don't know if anything's actually wrong.
Q: If you think you might have a virus on your computer, are you safe to back up any files? Like if it's just a word document and it looks uncorrupted is it probably safe, or are you risking just spreading the virus to other machines? I have some writing I'd rather not lose in restoring a previous copy of the hard drive, if I don't have to.
( The Apprentice )