So I have just recovered from, what I would quite likely label as, THE most horrific crash I have suffered in ages. Clients of the hosting were struck by a series of hacks and forwarders embedded into the html of their websites that rerouted traffic to infected sites that were loading trojans etc.
Unwittingly, I ended up going to the site of one of our client's as he was complaining about errors on the site and I got forwarded to some .cn site that loaded a frickin rootkit on my system. Instantly, it disabled Norton, managed to shut of my firewall and a blue screen came on.
I rebooted into safe mode and ran adaware, spybot, online virus scans. NOTHING. I downloaded AVG and tried to run it, it wouldn't execute in safe mode. In normal bootup, the computer would stay on for 4 seconds after reaching the desktop and just blue screen on me.
Ended up getting an external drive, backing up my data and reformatting. After struggling with this sucker for 5+ hours, I finally have it to where I can get some work done. Fuck knows why people do shit like this.
/rant
Unwittingly, I ended up going to the site of one of our client's as he was complaining about errors on the site and I got forwarded to some .cn site that loaded a frickin rootkit on my system. Instantly, it disabled Norton, managed to shut of my firewall and a blue screen came on.
I rebooted into safe mode and ran adaware, spybot, online virus scans. NOTHING. I downloaded AVG and tried to run it, it wouldn't execute in safe mode. In normal bootup, the computer would stay on for 4 seconds after reaching the desktop and just blue screen on me.
Ended up getting an external drive, backing up my data and reformatting. After struggling with this sucker for 5+ hours, I finally have it to where I can get some work done. Fuck knows why people do shit like this.
/rant
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