Not many are aware of this but i'm a science teacher, and i depend heavily on my computer to keep track of everything from documents to grades.

Got a virus on the server, which affected my workstation at work. This virus was placed on the server via a remote management vulnerability because IT hadn't patched properly and so far the infection has affected some 60 computers school wide, maybe more by the end of the day.

The virus is a clever little bugger, it dumps the active windows user profile on the computer. It essentially brings the computer back to a brand new status. I lost some 10.5 GB worth of documents, of which some 500mb are new since my last backup. I also lost all of my applications that didn't come from the servers. Luckily the grading is managed via the server, so no loss there.

I'm sure one of our students is PHSL.

Lesson learned.

Since we're all very active on the net i think it's worth commenting. People please, back your stuff up frequently, have an updated anti-virus with the latest virus definitions and ask your network manager to keep the systems patched.

Save yourselves some serious grief.

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Ouch!
My last computer.......I thought I had been backing up to an old smaller hard drive that Mr Saff had put in for that very purpose, but I set the path wrong......and was religiously backing up to the c: drive. So when that died....all my backups went with it. I can laugh about it now. But I couldn't for a long time.

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I keep most of my worthwhile stuff on my D and E drives, or on externals (memory sticks for me..).
Though if the whole laptop dies, I'm still lost, haha.

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I lost most of my documents when I first reformatted my C drive.. after which I moved the "My Documents" folder to D:\ . It is better to leave the programs in C though.. anyway the registry is lost during a format and why waste time uninstalling (or just delete? idk) them after formatting.

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OOooOOooOooo... I wish I understood computer terminology... patch, remote management vulnerability... and what's PHSL?

So what do you want me to do? Save all my stuff on a flash drive?

Just keep important files in your mattress.

Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten.Alter what is changeable, and accept what is mutable.