Working around the Shredder Trojan Virus
posted on 2nd of march, 2008
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>It just figures, you go to upgrade, and all hell breaks loose...
Our computer registry was fouled, and we had a bad stick of RAM, so we had to reconfigure the entire machine. Fortunately, our catalog was now safe on our external, and it's only the machine we are dealing with. Why fortunate? Because, when we brought it home, we hooked it up, BAM... the Shredder Trojan attached itself to our machine. HOLY COW!!
This is one of the most annoying and nastiest viruses I've ever delt with. We've cleaned it off of our machine, but can't seem to get the pop ups to stop. Once you click on a popup, by accident, or even scrolling over them, the .exe file kicks on and attaches again.
It is real disheartening to have everything crash down at once. Our sales, which had been close to one a day, stopped completely for the last week. The Trojan also took quite a bit out of us. We lost 2 work days dealing with it, and it's STILL not fixed. Robert is working on the computer, trying to stabilize it, when he should be editing his images so I can put them up. It's rather maddening...
The one good thing out of this whole thing is we now have an Olympus E-510 and can now shoot 10mpx images! YAY!
Now, if we can keep the computer up and running long enough to process them... lol
We have to look to tomorrow. We have to have hope that this is the right thing for us. The future is what you make of it, afterall :)
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Tags: crash future hope shredder virus
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Robert Gebbie
(Rgebbiephoto)
Vancouver, US
>I have been an artist as long as I can remember, drawing, sketching, and painting. When I was in high school, my father purchased a 35mm camera. He did not know how to use it, so when I came home, he asked if the school had a photography class I could take, so I could teach him to shoot. It did have a class, I took it, and I found a whole new world I could create in.
I prefer a controlled studio to the outdoors. Fine Art Nude work is a particular passion, and I hope to eventually publish a “coffee table” book of my work. I have shot a little bit of just about everything in my 20+ years as a photographer. Subjects I can be creative with are always a pleasure to shoot. From portraits to landscapes, products to fashion; if I can be creative and have some fun, then it’s a really good day.
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