The Tale of the Persistent Worm (and how it was eventually vanquished by Teh Awesome) Part 2
Waited at the MRT station and Teh Awesome who goes by the name of Shahrudin entered. I was expecting the Old Guy (don't know his name, so I just call him that in my head) who always helps my family out whenever we have any tech problems.
Me: *on phone* Who's this guy?
Dad: The [Old Guy]'s mentor.
Me: Oooooh.
I also got to see the MRT station's rest room for the workers for the first time. It was airconditioned and there was some sort of movie with explosives being played in the adjoining room. They had a whiteboard with writings like:
SELLING MODIFIED PSP
Fishing trip coming up this...!
Badminton training - anyone joining?
SELLING NASI LEMAK, EPOK EPOK...
And there were empty fish tanks lined up (with names on it like Ghost Rider, Hellfish...etc.) which I later found out were because the MRT workers wanted to house fighting fish but the place was too cold for them to live in.
Teh Awesome: Wait... so you did a sysem restore? And you didn't disable the antivirus?
Me: Um. Yes.
Teh Awesome: Goodness. You should NEVER NEVER do a system restore when antivirus is still going on. Oh, this is a worm by the way. Not a virus. A system restore can't get rid of those. Especially so for a worm.
The other workers stopped to offer remarks from time to time, one of which was:
You should do what I did when my laptop was spoiled! It accidentally fell over- and hey presto, it worked again!
So he was clicking away doing stuff of the technological sort that I do not know of while white stuff scrolled down. About...what? 40 minutes later?
Everything was alright. With all the important stuff intact.
Teh Awesome: Luckily your drive was partitioned and you saved all your stuff in there.
At that point I was just babbling away my thanks and gratitude.
Lesson learnt/Words of Wisdom given:
Keygen/Crack almost always houses a trojan. In worst case scenarios, even nastier things might lurk...SUCH AS A WORM. So make the antivirus scan your friend.
Me: *on phone* Who's this guy?
Dad: The [Old Guy]'s mentor.
Me: Oooooh.
I also got to see the MRT station's rest room for the workers for the first time. It was airconditioned and there was some sort of movie with explosives being played in the adjoining room. They had a whiteboard with writings like:
SELLING MODIFIED PSP
Fishing trip coming up this...!
Badminton training - anyone joining?
SELLING NASI LEMAK, EPOK EPOK...
And there were empty fish tanks lined up (with names on it like Ghost Rider, Hellfish...etc.) which I later found out were because the MRT workers wanted to house fighting fish but the place was too cold for them to live in.
Teh Awesome: Wait... so you did a sysem restore? And you didn't disable the antivirus?
Me: Um. Yes.
Teh Awesome: Goodness. You should NEVER NEVER do a system restore when antivirus is still going on. Oh, this is a worm by the way. Not a virus. A system restore can't get rid of those. Especially so for a worm.
The other workers stopped to offer remarks from time to time, one of which was:
You should do what I did when my laptop was spoiled! It accidentally fell over- and hey presto, it worked again!
So he was clicking away doing stuff of the technological sort that I do not know of while white stuff scrolled down. About...what? 40 minutes later?
Everything was alright. With all the important stuff intact.
Teh Awesome: Luckily your drive was partitioned and you saved all your stuff in there.
At that point I was just babbling away my thanks and gratitude.
Lesson learnt/Words of Wisdom given:
Keygen/Crack almost always houses a trojan. In worst case scenarios, even nastier things might lurk...SUCH AS A WORM. So make the antivirus scan your friend.