Three words I'd heard and said a hundred times.
Unfortunately good intentions do absolutely no good when a worm virus hits your computer out of nowhere before you actually got around to backing up all your important files.
True story and quite terrifying lesson learned this past weekend.
Friday night a worm virus attacked my computer and completely shut everything down. Nothing but a black screen with a blinking white cursor line.
Panic.
Nothing was backed up on my external hard drive. I meant to, but....oh, the sick feeling in my stomach!
All my thousands of pictures, my artwork, my new accounting for my business, school files, personal files, and the list goes on!
Saturday night my amazing, genius, wonderful brother Tim spent 6 hours working on our computer. We truly thought he would have to wipe it clean and start from scratch. Lots of waiting and praying.
And finally, by God's grace and Tim's unbelievable computer skills, my brother was able to hack in and somehow get rid of the virus and restore everything to my computer.
When he turned my laptop around and I saw my screensaver and all my icons on the desktop I literally shook with emotion and cried.
Very tough lesson learned. Viruses, worms, trojans all that stuff can hit anyone's computer at any time so please remember to do as I say (not as I did) and backup all your files just in case.
So now I do have it all backed up on an external hard drive and will continue to be faithful about it from here on.
What a stressful couple of days.
Praise God for answered prayers!
And thank you, thank you again Tim for all your incredible hard work. You are the smartest computer guy I've ever known! Love you tons!
Oh my goodness!!! I'm so glad Tim was able to fix it!
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