People Who Play With Fire .......

This post is coming from my newly reformatted Vista PC! I had been thinking about reformatting for some time and over the last 36 hours or so the PC is getting back to where it was.

But now it starts up perfectly, closes down perfectly and transfers files quickly and effectively.

As many of you know I am quite interested in pirate software. I was helping a Computer Club colleague out and looking for a serial number for a program he wanted to register. Outside my usual sources I found a 'serial' and downloaded it. When the file came through it was actually a keygen, a small program which makes serials for a certain program.

I ran the keygen and my computer just seemed to hum along with the red activity light flashing but no keygen appearing. I stopped the keygen program but it appears I was too late, my computer was infected by a virus. I ran my anti-virus to hunt it out, after 30 seconds the anti-virus program stopped working and would not restart. The same happened with two other anti malware spyware programs, they just became inoperable. The photo is of the reformat process in operation!

So the lengthy task of reformatting went ahead.

Now I am glad it happened, it forced me to make a decision and my PC will be much better off for the reformat!