Urs Meli

Since yesterday my laptop is totally secure :-)

Even I'm not able to login anymore.....

What happend: I caught the zlob trojan, which is a bad thing. First I thought I could remove it using tools like knoppicillin or some other external virus scanners and bootdisks. But suddenly I realized, my harddisk has been encrypted 3 months ago....gosh...

Next thing I tried, booting windows in safe-mode, removing the virus with some tools and several av-engines. When I tried to switch back to normal windows the sequence started: starting up windows..... shutting windows down..... Halt.....panic!

After a hard reboot the encryption program blocked my whole machine. My harddisk is still encrypted and unaccessible therefor now I have a very secure system...

Our helpdesk has to pull the harddisk out, access it from a different System and get the data of my drive....

What about a backup? Sure. Its 3 months old......

As a developer your sourcecode is in a svn repository or not? nope, svn repository crashed 6 months ago. just before lotusphere we got our hardware back. svn restoreing was planned for this week...... crap.....