{"id":16346,"date":"2019-09-18T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/09\/18\/news-10087\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:30:18","slug":"news-10087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/09\/18\/news-10087\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayback Wednesday: When you said \u2018gone for good,\u2019 I only heard \u2018good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2019\/05\/cw_sharktank_3x2_2400x1600_02-100796352-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>User comes to this support pilot fish complaining that his PC is acting strangely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out he had gotten his computer so jammed up with spyware and Trojans that it was basically nonfunctional,\u201d says fish. \u201cWe had to rebuild the computer from scratch.\u201d They were able to recover much of user\u2019s work and files, but some were irretrievably damaged \u2014 or just plain gone .<\/p>\n<p>Fish explains what happened and points out the probable infection vectors. And he explains that they had recovered as much as they could, but some stuff was simply gone for good. There would be no way to get anything more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo days later, he called to ask when I\u2019m going to bring him the rest of his missing files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharky is missing your true tale of IT life.<\/strong> <em>Send it to me at <a href=\"mailto:sharky@computerworld.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>. You can also subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Shark Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3432780\/wayback-wednesday-when-you-said-gone-for-good-i-only-heard-good.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2019\/05\/cw_sharktank_3x2_2400x1600_02-100796352-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>User comes to this support pilot fish complaining that his PC is acting strangely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out he had gotten his computer so jammed up with spyware and Trojans that it was basically nonfunctional,\u201d says fish. \u201cWe had to rebuild the computer from scratch.\u201d They were able to recover much of user\u2019s work and files, but some were irretrievably damaged \u2014 or just plain gone .<\/p>\n<p>Fish explains what happened and points out the probable infection vectors. And he explains that they had recovered as much as they could, but some stuff was simply gone for good. There would be no way to get anything more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo days later, he called to ask when I\u2019m going to bring him the rest of his missing files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3432780\/wayback-wednesday-when-you-said-gone-for-good-i-only-heard-good.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[714],"class_list":["post-16346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}