->> Did so Brendan. Their `customer service' rep flat out denied that
 ->> -their- product was at fault in any way and then said I had gotten it
 ->> from somewhere else. I did a little test on the demo by dumping it onto
 JD> What CDRom was this Rob?  I'd be intersted in knowing, so I dont make 
he
 JD> same mistake, and 'get it from somewhere else'.  Bring it to the RCMP.
 JD> Youre in the right spot for that 
 Done Joe.
 It was a demo of a 3d flight sim and the exe file on it was the infected 
file.
 As far as we can figure it was either the dummy who wrote it on an infected 
system or the guy who burned the CD who had the infection.
 The CD was not a commercial disc but a home-made one so go figure.
 Either way it cost me about 500 megs of saved files nand the C: drive plus 3 
days doing restoration from my backups.
 Now suspect stuff goes in my older system and it can trash it all it wants.
 Not much to lose off a 265 megger as opposed to what is in this one.
 I now do a weekly backup of everything on the C root drive to ZIP disk and a 
compressed archive on another drive as a spare.
 I lost all my APRS setup,packet setup,the entire C drive and some networking 
stuff for my course. Lucky for me it never go to touch the other drives as 
they were all NTFS partitions not FAT-16 DOS format.
 I was VERY lucky to not lose any of the files I have posted here recently as 
well as I had yet to make a recent backup of them.
 Lesson learned.
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