What not to do while repairing a computer

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Vovex Technology

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As most of you know I do computer repair for a living at KI Technology Group out of East Lansing, MI

Well today my co-worker and I were swarmed with machines that needed to have viruses/spyware removed. About 9 machines in and 5 hours later, my friend is working on a Compaq 5000 in windows 98 se. He finds that one of the .ini files in the c:\windows directory is infected with the W32.Bagle.MN viruses. He boots up in safe mode and loads up MS-DOS. And goes to the c:\windows prompt. Now instead of doign "dir *.ini" he makes the fatal mistake of typing "del *.ini" which of course erases the wonderful world of windows and causes your machine to not boot.

Anyways... just thought it was a funny story and would pass it on to you guys here. This certainly doesn't happen to often in the computer professional environment... but it did today.

I have a screen shot of him typing this in which I saved prior to us rebooting and doing a reinstall over the top. I'll be sure to make a follow up post with that screen-shot just for shits and giggles.
 
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Here is the screen shot as promised. I just pulled it off the guys computer and uploaded it for your pleasure.

:) :) :) :) :) :)
 
Yeah it is an easy fix.
You just pop windows 98 cd restart the machine. Then when you get to the install options you just choose the repair option. It reinstalls system files. We only had to reinstall the Video driver after we got the OS up too. Not too bad. Just an extra 90minutes of work really.

I printed a picture of that screen shot and taped it to my co-workers desk this morning. Should be funny to see his reaction when he comes to work in a few hours.
 
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