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Thursday 1 July 2010

Recovering from virus / malware

Foolishly pasted a link into my browser which turned out to be malware. Nasty.

But recovery back to previous state was helped tremendously by the following:
  • SQLyog queries being batch backed up using XCOPY -
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\steve\Application Data\SQLyog\Favorites" "S:\SQL\SQL Queries" /L /Y
  • Outlook rules exported
  • Use of FEBE in Firefox
  • Shortcuts previously copied to network (so can be copied back)
  • Use of del.icio.us and Google Bookmarks
Things to bear in mind for future:
  1. Don't click on things that look dodgy!
  2. Back up the internals of Firefox extensions, such as Tab Mix Plus preferences, sites held in Morning Coffee