Saved by Rollback RX Once Again

by **George Tyndall** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:49 pm

Unlike System Restore, which stopped working for me, RR needs only a few seconds to take a "snapshot" of one's sytsten and it can save, if memory serves, up to 60 of those snapshots.

Yesterday, after installing high-priority updates, MS offered to download Silverlight. As usual, I took a snapshot before dowloading and installing.

Upon restarting, a window entitled Windows XP Repair appeared and informed me that my HDD is defective and that I would need to go to another site to pay for an advanced version of the software to fix it.

Solution: Restart, hold down the Home key to activate RR, select the snapshot that I made before downloading Silverlight, and--Voila!--I'm up and running in seconds.

:fg:

by **Dave McElderry** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:38 pm

That's malware George. It didn't come from a Microsoft update or from installing Silverlight. Any idea where you might have gotten it? Glad you were able to do a complete restore. Sounds like a good program. Windows System Restore has had its share of problems over the years.

by **George Tyndall** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:22 pm

Dave McElderry wrote:Any idea where you might have gotten it?

Yesterday, there was an email allegedly from the IRS in my Spam folder.

As I did recently receive a letter from the IRS, I thought it might be legit, but when I opened the email, it immediately struck me as bogus, so I deleted it along with other nonsense--probably already too late at that point.

Interestingly, about a month ago I received a packet via DHL. Since then, I've repeatedly received emails from DHL in my Spam folder, all of which I've ignored.

How do the spammers know that I recently had legit encounters with DHL and the IRS?

by **Dave McElderry** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:05 pm

They don't. But if 2 people out of 100 messages sent happen to have had recent contact with DHL or the IRS, some of those people may fall prey to the scam. They don't have to have any inside knowledge; they just count on you to draw the conclusion that they do.

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by **Chuck Engels** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:47 pm

One thing I can tell you for sure, the IRS will not usually send you an email

Phone call, yes, regular or registered mail, yes, email, probably not.

by **TreeTopsRanch** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:54 pm

I am getting at least one spam a day from UPS, you know we all get packages from UPS from time to time. This one says "Here is your tracking number for the package you ordered." It is in good English and looks legitimate. It is a virus so I never open it but it is tempting as the wife and I order stuff from Amazon and they ship by UPS. If you mouse over that tracking link it is obvious that it is not a UPS link.

by **TreeTopsRanch** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:06 pm

George T...... I looked at the Rollback RX site and noticed this : "Windows System Restore uses 5-15% disk space per snapshot. RollBack Rx only uses 0.1%"

Do you know how they do that?

by **George Tyndall** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:33 pm

TreeTopsRanch wrote:George T...... I looked at the Rollback RX site and noticed this : "Windows System Restore uses 5-15% disk space per snapshot. RollBack Rx only uses 0.1%"

Do you know how they do that?

I'm clueless, but it seems to be a well-spent $69.95 so far.

by **George Tyndall** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:06 pm

TreeTopsRanch wrote:George T...... I looked at the Rollback RX site and noticed this : "Windows System Restore uses 5-15% disk space per snapshot. RollBack Rx only uses 0.1%"

Do you know how they do that?

I just found this explanation on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollback_Rx

:hat:

by **TreeTopsRanch** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:22 pm

Thank you George.