Counting the cost:
Finally managed to download Norton A-V update. Scanned 39681 files - 11251 infected, almost all .jpg files.Norton deleted 9931 as unrecoverable, but the remaining 1320 aren't any good either, and have had to be deleted.
A lot of the infected files were in the caches of my three browsers (IE, Netscape, Opera), so no pain there. Quite a lot from graphics type applications (eg. PhotoDeluxe) and web authoring packages (NetFusion, Trellix). I suspect that these are things like buttons and templates, so packages may need to be re-installed.
Vast majority where from graphics libraries (I use a digital camera for work), some of which were backed up onto CD-ROM, so I have lost some work, and will need to spend a lot of time recovering individual files. What P*ss*s me off is the sheer waste of time which could otherwise be used to generate revenue!
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