Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Char361979]

"problem exists between keyboard and chair"

Also known in the British IT industry as "a fleshware issue"

[kimbosaur]

I can't remember the last time I haven't gone Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve!

[Char361979]

I can't remember the last time I haven't gone Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve!

I couldn't do that! That would stress me out! We'd be talking cold sweats!! Too many people too much rushing about waaaayyyy too much stress.

[kibakiba]

Dunno how it's a problem with me, I just turned my pc on like I always do. Sorry. I'm not a uuuuuber pc person, you know. But, the fact that I did nothing different from any other day, and all of my stuff got erased is about as annoying as it gets.

[Char361979]

I don't think you did do anything wrong I had the same thing happen to me. Ocassionally you get malware piggybacking on legitamate websites. There you'll be having a look at something that is perfectly fine (in my case it was images of garters) and unbeknownst to you something is lurking in the background that does weird stuff to your PC what you restart or turn it off. There is some great malware software out there. Chris managed to restore everything on my PC when it all went to hell in a handbasket. PM him with details he may be able to help.

Didn't mean to offend, was only kidding. I'm really not that hot on the old 'puter myself.

[kibakiba]

Dunno. Unless the forum has it I doubt that I only really visit the forum not that I have my games installed. I've got everything back, now. I just went ahead and reinstalled it. It's working fine atm, obviously. But... If I do have to end up reinstalling something... I'm kicking this computer out the door! Haha. I'd rather have xp, because I've never had a problem like that with it.

[Char361979]

These things can piggyback on anything, maybe one of your games? I didn't know what was going on with mine either and thought the machine itself was just being rubbish. kept telling me it was over heated as well but it wasn't. Also kept shutting itself down. Weird....

[kibakiba]

That was how my old one was, it was just old parts that were dying in my case, though.

[Char361979]

Mine was about 6 months old and is the one I am using this second. There was nothing wrong with it at all other that this horrid virus/malware thing which Chris fixed. He's an IT consultant. Computers are his thing. I'd have been stuffed without his help.

[chris-uk]

Window 7 is actually a better architecture than XP, it's got more security designed in. It sounds like you picked up something nasty, Char's problem came from an advert on a Yahoo! Forum, legit site and legit advertising, but someone managed to slip a drive-by exploit into an ad. You didn't have to click on it. And then it took me around 8 hours to restore everything back to its pre-virus state. Lucky it was a new machine and a reinstall was easy.
If you aren't already running some AV I would install some asap - MS Security Essentials works well with Win7, other than that the free version of AVG has always been reliable for me.
I'd also advise ditching Internet Explorer as your default browser and using Chrome or Firefox instead (you may already have done this).