🚀 go-pugleaf

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> You seem to know quite a lot about computers. May I ask what job you do
> for a living? Is it connected in any way with 'computing?

Hehe, thanks for the compliment. I am an artist but I work very much
with my computers and love them - they are my dearest slaves. ;-)
My husband is software architect but he works very hard and always
shrugs when I have a "minor" problem with my PCs. Too much expert, you
know ... ;-)  Fortunately, I am intelligent and communicative enough
to get along independently!!!

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> You might like to restate your problem afresh, as you see it now, and
> post your enquiry in the 'alt.computer.security' newsgroup.

Thanks for the hint. For the moment, I have placed an inquiry in the
Acronis forum and I will see how their clever experts can help me.

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>  From my very limited knowledge, I am convinced that - just as you and I
> can move data from C: to D: to E: - malware controlled from external
> sources can do exactly the same thing. Malware can 'hide'- I believe -
> on D: and E: whilst you reinstall on C: ...... and then pop back to bite
> you! You really need, IMO, to delete all partitions (and data) before
> effecting a clean install.

Yes I know, but I had googled very intensely about this trojan
(therefore I could kill it off for good so very fast - some people
never get rid of it) and read everywhere that it only affects C:  And
nowhere I read that it did damage on files, specially by encrypting
them (In this case, it would be called a virus). It slows down CPUs,
but it did not even dwell in my shell long enough to start that.
And it is absolutely impossible that this annoyance (classified by
Avira as "not very dangerous" and by Kaspersky as so unimportant that
it doesnt even list it, only people who get money for their help
classify every malware as very dangerous)  that this trojan would have
been so modest to affect only my personal files inside "my documents".
I have hundreds of files in other folders, and thousands of files on
my external harddisk - they are not encrypted. So I came to the
resolution that I must have been that headless virus myself. So I
shook my alzheimerbrain very thoroughly and got a faint memory that I
once encrypted my personal files I don't know why. The wicked system
did not tell me that I would have to store my certificate or else I
would surely have done it. I am a security fan.

Well, I have always been a lucky dog, so in this very important matter
I hope that all I will have lost in the end will be my precious time.
There's an image in the darkness ...

So long
Luise