Too late for me I gave up and reloaded windows from scratch. My backups
for my logs were fine, its all the other software that needs to be
restored that is a PITA
Future is ACRONIS disk imaging for me when everything is up and running
again.
~73
Don
KD8NNU
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Don AA5AU wrote:
> The virus on contesting.com was found to be the Data Restore virus
> which is a nasty trojan.
>
> I've been told that the problem at contesting.com (and eHam) has been
> fixed and the script eliminated.
>
> In case you were unfortunate to have been bitten by it, you can follow
> the instructions here to get most everything going:
>
>
> http://www.myantispyware.com/2011/09/29/how-to-remove-data-restore-virus/
>
>
> Unfortunately, things do not get full repaired by the above "fix" but
> it does eliminate the virus from your PC. What I ended up doing after
> following the instructions on the myantispyware.com page was to do a
> System Restore on my machine. Luckily, Restore had created a restore
> point two days prior to getting the virus.
>
> This is the not the first time System Restore has saved me a lot of
> trouble.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
>
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Mike Harris <mike.harris@cwimail.fk>
>> To: RTTY <rtty@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:08 PM
>> Subject: [RTTY] Virus
>>
>> G'day,
>>
>> I think it was here that someone reported a virus issue with the
>> contesting.com server.
>>
>> I unfortunately deleted the email. I would be grateful for a re-hit
>> of the details.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mike VP8NO
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