Not sure how long this virus as been around. One of the admins i work with just had to take his computer into the computer doctor to get it fixed because of this virus. First thing he noticed that started to play up or change were the icons on the desktop would change from the original ones to a copy of anything on the computer. Next thing he noticed was .jpg and .bmp files were changing to .txt or .pdf files. After about 3 days of this happening and running a number of programs to find the problem nothing could be found. The next thing he finds out was when he started his computer up it was like an auto-format button was hit.. He could see everything on his hard drive being wiped off..yes you got it, it hard a virtual hard drive of his on the screen. from what we were told the virus hit the bios and spread from there. so for god sake backup everything before this happens to you.. This person lost well over $1500 worth of work and also some coding he was working on for the game site we admin on.. DONT LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU...

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