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RIP Roger Moore. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
He was my most favourite Bond.
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Being a stereotypical jock I always loved the violence and action in Connery's and Craig's version of Bond (and if you read any of the books, that version is closer to Fleming's original concept) but it's impossible not to like Roger Moore. Owner of the world's most agile eyebrows, and seducing women while wearing trousers pulled up to his armpits. Legend.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Yesterday I was peacefully reading the C# 6.0 and .NET 4.6 book by Troelsen and Japikse and herself was busy surfing the Net, looking for a nice picture of a puppy that she needed for a birthday card she was making for one of the grandkids. Suddenly:
Herself: "Aaaaargh!"
Me: "What's wrong dear?"
Herself: "I had a popup window that stated my machine is infected with a virus!"
Me: "Let me see..."
Herself: "I was scared so I immediately closed the browser." 
Me: "Well what did it say?"
Herself: "Something about a Trojan and calling Microsoft."
I have seen that bogus warning before, so:
Me: "Restart your machine and scan with Malwarebytes and Defender and let's see."
The scans revealed nothing and she resumed working. About an hour later I was watching an old John Wayne movie on Amazon Prime:
Herself: "Aaaargh! It's back."
Now I was getting really p*ssed. You can interrupt my book reading but causing me to pause a movie by the Duke is getting on my fighting side. Anyway, this time she left the window up so I could see.
It was the old bogus warning that you had a Trojan on your machine and you must call "Microsoft" on the number stated for help. I never call the number. It may redirect your call to one of those pay-by-the-minute lines, where it will keep you waiting while they rack up the dollars on your phone account.
So I brought the disk where I store our system's drive images out of storage, booted her machine from the re-imaging utility's boot media and restored her system to what it was five days ago, when the image was taken. All was well after that. The process took about 10 minutes.
If you are not yet taking images of your system's drive on a regular basis, you may want to give it some serious thought. On our machines I keep all data on a separate drive or partition, so the data does not bloat up the C: drive's images. The C: drive is only for Windows and all program files. Data on a separate partition or disk can easily be backed up manually to an external drive that is not normally connected.
I am aware of the following utilities that you can use to manage images. The first three have free versions for home users:
Macrium's Reflect (My favorite)
AOMEI Backupper (Griff's favorite)
Clonezilla
Acronis
If you are not making regular drive images, give these some thought. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Damn right! 
The recent WannaCry outbreak should ram that message home: backup. Often.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You two do know that you sound like Professor Proton and his puppet Gino The Neutrino?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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What, we got you interested in science? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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DNFTT 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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BURP!
Too late.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Oi! That was my goat!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I found just the right recipe, but I don't want to be metasoapboxed.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: backup. Often
So you can have more useless crap when it hits you (if you don't keep backup offline).
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Cornelius Henning wrote: If you are not making regular drive images, give these some thought
Of course, but how did the trojan get there in the first place? Is missus opening the attachments of "please find your xxxx in the attached document," or downloading 'that looks neat' "utilities", or ...
medicine is usually useful, prevention is best.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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She almost certainly got it from a poisoned website.
Quote: medicine is usually useful, prevention is best
The point is that you do not have to live in fear of viruses if your system and data are properly backed up. How will you know in advance that a particular web site is toxic? Abstaining from all browsing to new sites? That will put a serious crimp in your ability to utilize the Net to its full extent.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Not just new sites (which would make Google pretty redundant) - XSS can make "safe" sites dangerous as well.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Cornelius Henning wrote: How will you know in advance that a particular web site is toxic?
AdBlock + NoScript + CommonSense
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Are you implying:
Quote: AdBlock + NoScript + CommonSense
+ No Backups?
If so: Good luck to you!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Backups are also subject to ransomware attack unless you store it on WORM storage. I doubt DVDs and BDs are popular these days for storing backups.
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Our backups (images and data) are stored on external drives that are normally disconnected and powered down. Ransomware cannot get to them. I also use DVDs for very critical data (such as password files, encryption certificates and financial info). This data fits comfortably on a DVD or USB stick. I keep more than one copy to cover potential failures.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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...and popup blocker.
prevention. Simple and effective.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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... and VM if you really need to visit dodgy sites.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: serious thought
You know what else needs serious thought? Clicking random links 
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See my response to Lopatir above.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I got this at work last week and again at home yesterday. Both times as soon as I closed the automated message window with voiceover a pr0n pic opened. I closed and I ran a scan and found noting.
Phising attack
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I wish I would have read this before 3:01 AM CDT yesterday. Apparently that's when my main data drive for my home/office server failed. I do remember waking up and hearing a constant clicking sound, but convinced myself that it was a ceiling fan. Three hours later when I got up, I realized that the noise was coming from my office.
I felt like an idiot when I realized the last full backup I can find was 3 years old! 
It will take a long time to get things back to 'normal'. I've already spent hours re-installing sql server and fighting with reporting services to get it back up and running.
I'm considering sending the drive off to a data recovery service, depending on cost. It's going to be another long day! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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What can I say? ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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