system crashed

[Front242]

Well my system crashed last night from a software conflict with COM+ I tried to repair it with my backup which turned out to be corrupted. I then used the CD to repair and it could not load COM+ because of the conflict. I formatted/reinstalled and realized my my AV/FW software was packed away (we are moving to MT), so I decided to download sygate from CNet. Guess what happened next... Boom... msblast! It stopped the download. I manually removed it, downloaded sygate and now I am back. I lost everything. What has been your worst security nightmare?

[Vickip]

The worst Ive ever experienced was when one of my computers got infected with the Backdoor Netdevil. From what Ive read, this is a trojan that can take a certain amount of control of your computer (like your mouse while you are using it!), logs your keystrokes, store files, etc.....

The only reason I noticed it was because I keep a close eye on all of the computers in my house.....I started finding porn files on one of my children's computer. (this is a young child...so there was absolutely no way they did it!) It was in the "My Documents" folder. I would delete them, then just a few minutes later others would suddenly appear..worst of all...there was also some kiddy porn... I just about freaked out....

Got rid of it, though...had to cancel all of my credit cards, debit cards...wipe out the Hdd and write zeros to it ....it was a nightmare, to say the least!

Vicki