Fop!

Yeah, that’s my PC right now…fopped…

Let me explain. My Dad’s laptop, and in fact, his entire company, is being bugged by this little bugging virus problem. Apparently, it travels through pen drives. I guess you must’ve guessed what happens next. If not, go boil ‘yer head.

I put my pen drive into Dad’s laptop to copy my Mom’s airline e-ticket, and when I put it back into my PC, I see a ‘folder’ called New Folder with Microsoft Corporation written under it, for some reason. Didn’t bother.

Big Mistake!

I went on with my work and printed the ticket, and when before shutting off the PC, I checked Process Explorer for some reason I don’t remember anymore… Anyway, I saw 3 processes with the name ‘New Folder’ running. I looked at certain parameters, and noticed that they were using the harddisk and CPU a bit (or more…) Anyway, killed them right away.

Next bit…I tried to Safely Eject my pen drive. Yeah right… I did that, and PC just did a reboot. Improptu! Fun isn’t it. Anyway, I booted into Ubuntu, removed Windows from the list of operating systems in GRUB, so that noobs like my bro wouldn’t accidentally worsen things for me.

Anyway, downloading avast! right now, and am planning on scanning and fixing stuff from Linux before I venture to open Win XP. Also, I can’t mount any of my NTFS partitions. Linux says that they have not been ‘cleanly unmounted’. Hmm…. I’ll continue this topic later.