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A word of warning: Sony Australia Desktop is evil!
Foxy Mop
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Hey all,
After a 2 day absence, I thought I'd post a warning here. I had downloaded the Sony Pearl Jam Countdown desktop about a month ago when it first became available. It had a cool intro of the band and a countdown to the album release date.
Wednesday I decided to uninstall the desktop, since the album was out and it was making my WinXP start up a little slow.
Little did I realize the effect the uninstall would have.
As it began uninstalling, it wiped out my entire desktop's contents; icons, files, etc. Unfortunately there was no "cancel" option and everything else had frozen up.
I rebooted my computer and did a System Restore to earlier in the day. My desktop items were still deleted (deleted beyond the Recycle bin) and I tried uninstalling again. The same thing happened, except this second time, it corrupted and disabled my Norton's Anti-Virus and Microsoft Office. Computer locked up.
Then it erased my entire C drive.
Needless to say this was very devastating to me, since I have my own business and have all of my business' information on my computer, along with personal/family photos, 8 years of email, Pearl Jam videos, etc. Fortunately I can retrieve about 60% of the information from backups, friends and family. The rest I've attempted to salvage with a data mining/recovery program.
So please... beware of this program. I'm not sure if it contains a virus, or it just interacted with my computer in a very bad way, but be very careful when uninstalling it. And if you don't have it - DO NOT install it.
And don't forget to always backup your important info. I learned the hard way
Laura
After a 2 day absence, I thought I'd post a warning here. I had downloaded the Sony Pearl Jam Countdown desktop about a month ago when it first became available. It had a cool intro of the band and a countdown to the album release date.
Wednesday I decided to uninstall the desktop, since the album was out and it was making my WinXP start up a little slow.
Little did I realize the effect the uninstall would have.
As it began uninstalling, it wiped out my entire desktop's contents; icons, files, etc. Unfortunately there was no "cancel" option and everything else had frozen up.
I rebooted my computer and did a System Restore to earlier in the day. My desktop items were still deleted (deleted beyond the Recycle bin) and I tried uninstalling again. The same thing happened, except this second time, it corrupted and disabled my Norton's Anti-Virus and Microsoft Office. Computer locked up.
Then it erased my entire C drive.
Needless to say this was very devastating to me, since I have my own business and have all of my business' information on my computer, along with personal/family photos, 8 years of email, Pearl Jam videos, etc. Fortunately I can retrieve about 60% of the information from backups, friends and family. The rest I've attempted to salvage with a data mining/recovery program.
So please... beware of this program. I'm not sure if it contains a virus, or it just interacted with my computer in a very bad way, but be very careful when uninstalling it. And if you don't have it - DO NOT install it.
And don't forget to always backup your important info. I learned the hard way
Laura
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