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Title: loss
Post by: King Class Scout on October 18, 2011, 07:27:36 AM

well, fellas, looks like I'm out of the game.

I was hit by an old fashioned virus while I went to work thismorning.  everything's been purged from the comp but the internet connection, including all saved mods, working mods, shortcuts, pics, etc.  now I know why I lost all my personal pics a couple months ago.  there are only three things on my desktop at all.  an empty My Documents, IE, and the recycle bin

the odd part?  the net connection, my onlines and such are still there, but there's no way to access either hard drive, or any program files

Title: Re: loss
Post by: Nebula on October 18, 2011, 08:06:21 AM

you check to see if everything was just hidden?

Title: Re: loss
Post by: tiqhud on October 18, 2011, 08:10:19 AM

 :( :( :(

Title: Re: loss
Post by: King Class Scout on October 18, 2011, 08:20:27 AM

can't check anything.  the entire start menu has been purged as well, including the links to the hard drives!!

Title: Re: loss
Post by: Nebula on October 18, 2011, 08:26:52 AM

soo you can't press alt and go to the tools menu to check the hidden option?

Title: Re: loss
Post by: King Class Scout on October 18, 2011, 10:43:07 AM

just got a mail back from my Microsoft certified ex.  he says that the virus set all files to hidden.  note that I've already had my virus scanner nail the thing, but not before it marked everything invis

and, no, nebs, with everything rendered "hidden", there's no way to tun off the "hidden" switch

Title: Re: loss
Post by: flarespire on October 18, 2011, 10:55:33 AM

press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and do a new task and input explorer.exe, that should run, if it does just set all files to visible from hidden, that will most likely work, if not...i dunno.

Title: Re: loss
Post by: Nebula on October 18, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

umm yeah there is... you can have hidden files shown in the tools menu from a window.

Title: Re: loss
Post by: King Class Scout on October 18, 2011, 11:13:08 AM

WHEW.  i found it (not only were they set to "hidden", they were set to "read only"!)

note for future goofs: right click still works

I was informed that the start menu needs rebuilt.  I'd like to add a few items to that.

Title: Re: loss
Post by: tiqhud on October 18, 2011, 02:41:00 PM

good thing, not lost work