In the Early days of Christmas 2008 my old hosting provider declared bankruptcy and switched off their servers, or rather switched off their servers and then leaked information about their bankruptcy..
So as a man with a FULL backup of his site cough cough, I went to a new provider and reinstalled my backup.. Hmm, but well as you may see I missed a few months of backup :-/ bummer..
But I will try to restore some of the missing posts from memory and from google cache, and well take a new look at my backup routine 😀
Meanwhile, hope you all had a merry Christmas and wish you a blast of a new year 🙂
Happy holidays.
Mike
Ps. Note the irony in that the last post from my backup actually regarded backup.. Someone sure had it in for me 😉
Carol of the Bells – 2008 Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman on Vimeo
https://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.png00Mikehttps://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.pngMike2008-12-30 12:11:422009-01-03 20:56:07Almost back after a major incident.. New Year 2008.
Paragon now offers a free (only for non commercial usage) version of their Drive backup software (Drive Backup 9.0 Express) a Ghost like product, I have not tested the product myself but Paragons products are usually very high class so I would suspect it to be good.
AVG Antivirus has joined the not so popular club of antivirus vendors, that has released faulty definitions for their virus scanner. In this case it caused AVG to wrongly detect a virus in a vital Windows OS file, which in worst case (if you followed AVG’s advice) could lead to a crashed Windows installation.
From the AVG forum here is a possible solution that do not require re-installation;
Many PC’s crashed after todays’s update of AVG. The update destines user32.dll as a virus: PSW. banker4.APSA.
Valid for Win XP SP2 and SP3 with AVG7.5 and AVG 8.
This is not a virus, but an essential part of your windows programme.
prevention:
before you start up your PC, unplug the internet cable. Boot your PC and disable in your firewall the access to internet for the AVG update manager. Reconnect the internet cable. In this way your PC stays safe from the maliceous AVG update.
solution:
if you happen to believe the AVG programme (like I did) when it shows you the virus alert, and have choosen “heal”or quarantine””your PC will no longer restart. It shows a blue screen at start up and tells you it cannot find winsvr, error c0000135. System recovery has no effect. Don’t panic (like I did) but:
-restart your PC in safe mode (press F8 during windows start up)
-open the AVG control centre by clicking the logo or via start-programs-AVG
-go to the virus vault, select user32.dll and click restore.
-empty the virus vault
-close AVG
-now unistall the whole AVG program: start-programs-AVG-uninstall
-reboot the PC and it is fine.
https://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.png00Mikehttps://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.pngMike2008-11-12 12:29:222009-01-07 23:33:47AVG Antivirus joins the not so popular club.
Almost back after a major incident.. New Year 2008.
UncategorizedFrosty the Snowman 2008 – Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.
Free Drive Backup 9.0 Express
Backup, Deployment, UtilityParagon now offers a free (only for non commercial usage) version of their Drive backup software (Drive Backup 9.0 Express) a Ghost like product, I have not tested the product myself but Paragons products are usually very high class so I would suspect it to be good.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/features.html
AVG Antivirus joins the not so popular club.
AntivirusAVG Antivirus has joined the not so popular club of antivirus vendors, that has released faulty definitions for their virus scanner. In this case it caused AVG to wrongly detect a virus in a vital Windows OS file, which in worst case (if you followed AVG’s advice) could lead to a crashed Windows installation.
From the AVG forum here is a possible solution that do not require re-installation;
PC crash after AVG update 9 Nov 2008
Many PC’s crashed after todays’s update of AVG. The update destines user32.dll as a virus: PSW. banker4.APSA.
Valid for Win XP SP2 and SP3 with AVG7.5 and AVG 8.
This is not a virus, but an essential part of your windows programme.
prevention:
before you start up your PC, unplug the internet cable. Boot your PC and disable in your firewall the access to internet for the AVG update manager. Reconnect the internet cable. In this way your PC stays safe from the maliceous AVG update.
solution:
if you happen to believe the AVG programme (like I did) when it shows you the virus alert, and have choosen “heal”or quarantine””your PC will no longer restart. It shows a blue screen at start up and tells you it cannot find winsvr, error c0000135. System recovery has no effect. Don’t panic (like I did) but:
-restart your PC in safe mode (press F8 during windows start up)
-open the AVG control centre by clicking the logo or via start-programs-AVG
-go to the virus vault, select user32.dll and click restore.
-empty the virus vault
-close AVG
-now unistall the whole AVG program: start-programs-AVG-uninstall
-reboot the PC and it is fine.