Comments | pat_barron: I feel like an idiot when I do stuff like this...

pat_barron

I feel like an idiot when I do stuff like this...

Jan 29, 2009 11:53

I managed to get my work laptop trojan'ed and rootkit'ed yesterday. What I did to cause this was stupid on many levels....

I was looking for the utility software for an old CompUSA 16MB USB thumb drive (yes, that's 16 megabytes). It had some utility software that could set up a separate partition with password protection. The software came on a ( Read more... )

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fabricdragon January 29 2009, 19:02:50 UTC

ummmmmmmm owtch?
frankly? i would just toss the idiot thing.. but (shrug) whatever.

pat_barron January 29 2009, 22:59:03 UTC

Heh ... you know me - once I put my mind to something, I can be really stubborn, and no matter how many times I fail, I'm always convinced that success is just around the next corner... :-)

Turns out, though, that in this case, persistence bears fruit. I found (through some creative Google searching) that the software was once at http://fmi.compusa.com. It's not there anymore, but Archive.org had an archived copy of it. I (heart) Archive.org, it's so useful for so many different things... :-)