Thursday, 2 February 2006
Yo, Windoze users, back up your shizzle
Posted in Open Source, Technology by Chris at 19:45
Or it could be alllll gone tomorrow
That’s when the Kama Sutra computer worm will begin destroying critical files on infected computers. And hundreds of thousands of machines may have the worm lurking within their Windows operating system, ready to be unleashed on February 3 and the third of every month thereafter.
Experts say Windows Office documents, Word documents, Excel spread sheets, and PDFs (portable document format) are among the files that will be “overwritten.” That means the data will be changed and corrupted, and the original information will no longer be accessible.
While files that have simply been deleted can sometimes be recovered; overwritten files are usually lost for good.
Then again, that’s what you get for using a proprietary OS.
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