Unfortunatley, looks like at some point, my trusty sidekick became infected with a heuristic virus.
Ugggghhhh! I used my anti-virus program to scan the program and good ol' Norton removed/quarantined the stupid infection. But I couldn't open my spreadsheet anymore. GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
If that wasn't bad enough, ever since I've discovered my spreadsheet was infected by the virus, some douche-bag in China has been attempting to hack into my computer.
How could this happen to me? I don't download programs, music or movies! When it comes to my computer, I pretty much wear the techno-equivalent of the Jo-Bro purity ring!
I digress, ahem.
The last time I created a "back-up" of my spreadsheet was in January and I've spent the entire weekend re-creating my financial data for the past 6 months. Thank goodness for my blog, since I was able to find most of the info here. I really think there's a special ring of hell for jerks who create computer viruses.
8 comments:
that sucks - atleast you were able to get it recreated --- hope the computer problems are over
Google Docs!!!! Then it's safe, but you can also access it from anywhere, and it's always password protected.
Hi there-sorry to hear of the computer problems you're having my dear :-( Your weekend away sounds just the ticket I think!!
all hail the blog backup (i've used it many times for that purpose). And china? You must have some good stuff on that computer! lol. Hmmm... thinking Quicken? ;)
I second the Google docs. It's not as good as Excel, but v. useful.
I <3 Excel professionally at work, but I use Works at home on my laptop.
I'd die without my trusty spreadsheet, but I have versions saved in several places as back up. Sorry you got a virus :(
I periodically email myself a copy of my important stuff so I'm never out more than a month of data.
As for being hacked...in playing around with my biz website figuring out some code for the SEO stuff I'm trying to effect, Ms. Phone Sex and I discovered that "Turkish Warriorr" (yes, 2 R's twice) had hacked my site at least 3x in 2007 but never did anything to mess it up. He just left some files saying "You've been HACKED by Turkish Warriorr". I felt like I'd been cyber-molested.
ditto on the google docs. i still use excel but i use google docs merely as a back-up tool to retain copies of my files.
now, all of this talk about being hacked makes me want to get my machine checked.
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