Idiot of the year award goes to ..........Monkeyhands

[monkeyhands]

I feel like such a moron....

I had a legitimate email from a mate of mine yesterday regarding his own music for sale on iTunes, and one of the files was called "Pricelist", and it contained details of all of his music.

A few hours later, I had an email from monkeyhands@aol.com and I thought, that's really odd, to get an email from someone else with a username monkeyhands. Attached to this email was a file, "price_new.zip".

Bearing in mind the email I had earlier, I assumed it was my musical mate Jay playing a prank of somesort. I scanned the zip with norton AV, all OK, I unzipped it and it contained what looked like a notepad file, scanned this too, no virus.

What the f*ck was I thinking.

I opened the file. It said simply "sorry". As soon as I read it I knew I had ****ed up. I made my own notepad file, wrote "sorry" and it was 6k. This other file was 40k.

Then Norton died, telling me I had a problem with my serial number. Then windows told me i needed register it.

Then I did a search for "price_new.zip" and found out it contained a bagle virus of somesort.

In 8 years of PC ownership I've never done anything as stoooopid as this.

So, here I am, 10 hours later with a formatted hard drive and fresh installation of windows. At least all my favourites were backed up on my laptop.


The moral of this story? I'm an idiot.

[freonchill]

view done that before, well actually many times
but then i manually cleaned it and went along my way

but i feel ya, ive done stupid things like that before (like delete a drive)

[pinky]

I've not done anything like that on my own pc, but I have deleted a substantial amount of documents stored on our shared drive at work. I deleted so much that the guy who deals with out pc's would not get in touch with our IT department, so I had to do the whole thing myself. Fortuntaly the server get backed up every day, so not much was lost. I am a bit more careful now, although two weeks ago I deleted 28 messages on the ansaphone at work, because I pressed the wrong button.

Oh well, it's all in a days work I suppose.

[gsx70]

My stupid thing was to let a registry cleaner I never had used before do it's thing without checking what it was deleting. Blue screen of death for me. :evil:
Safe mode, command prompt, no dice.:evil: But after a fresh install of XP my system works better now than it did before.

I now have a complete backup on a second hard drive.

Oh, and I did give myself a virus once. There was a rash of "Monkey B" running around at work, It was on the floppy containing the Virus scan prog designed to fix it. (System was clean until then). :razz::razz:

[analogue40]

don't be to hard on yourself, one slight lapse and could happen to anyone, especially given the prior situation, and that NAV didn't pick it up

[Nastyboy132]

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself dude.

[tarzan99]

Think we have all done something like that at some time or other. Just look on the bright side, at least you have a nice fasr set of software again ;)

[monkeyhands]

You're right Tarzan.

It's certainly a mistake I won't make twice. :)