Comments | cellohaha: they had to wipe my hard drive and refused to back up mp3s

cellohaha

they had to wipe my hard drive and refused to back up mp3s

Aug 29, 2005 23:33

Poll: If just once, you got a very bad virus downloading a song, would you never download music ever again?

Comments 19

tehspotteh August 30 2005, 04:06:36 UTC

I got not so very bad viruses downloading songs and I've decided to never download music again...

nardmw August 30 2005, 04:08:43 UTC

I always scan my music before playing them out of paranoia.

Seems like it has paid off so far.

nardmw August 30 2005, 04:09:25 UTC

And the new coldplay cd is tres cool!

fiddlewizard August 30 2005, 04:18:34 UTC

how do you scan songs before playing them?
though i feel like you woulnd't have to play the song to get the virus?

nardmw August 30 2005, 20:43:16 UTC

i scan them by right clicking on the file and then selecting "scan with norton antivir"

well, to my knowledge, downloading the a virus infected file isn't bad, it's when you execute the file bad stuff happens.

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fiddlewizard August 30 2005, 04:19:33 UTC

i have virus protection -- do you?

Sorry about the hard drive, that sucks so much.

why wouldn't they back up mp3s?

cellohaha August 30 2005, 06:09:03 UTC

i took my computer to office of information technologies at umass, and i guess it's just their policy. when i asked one of the geeky guys to back up my mp3s, he said, "technically we're not allowed to, but i'll see what i can do," and then he didn't. but they saved all of my word files, and maybe even my sim people. i had norton antivirus, so what the hell? oit replaced it with the program umass uses.

fiddlewizard August 30 2005, 14:54:01 UTC

weird. what downloading prog do you use?

sounlikely August 30 2005, 04:31:51 UTC

when you use limewire, while it is downloading something it scans it, and if it finds a corruption in the file, it asks if you want to continue downloading it, and you can just say no. Sometimes I dont' care thoguh, because i have a mac and nobody writes viruses for macs. But yeah, limewire is a good program to use.

cellohaha August 30 2005, 06:11:43 UTC

thanks, i'll try it! i was using bearshare. so if i get another virus it's your fault. not really.
and you know what song it happened with? angels from montgomery! can you think of a more unmalicious song?

sounlikely August 30 2005, 14:54:57 UTC

i have a couple diff versions of that song on my comp, i could email them to you.

sounlikely August 30 2005, 14:56:08 UTC

sorry I'm sure that sounded sketchy, this is Heather

Thread 8

feistyenigma August 30 2005, 18:21:15 UTC

Nope, i2hubb is addicting. You shall be addicted. Live you on campus?

cellohaha August 31 2005, 01:29:34 UTC

Yes! I'm living in Butterfield in Central. Where are you living?