I haven't had a virus wipe out my hard drive, but the adware certainly has created havoc, as have hackers.
Somehow, even with my software firewall, a hacker got through and made my hard drive so that it could only be used for a bout a 10 minute period, and lock up after that.
I believe it was adware that gave me the about
:blank problem, screwing up my registry to the point where even after spend a couple hundred dollars at the shop, thinking all was fine, I used it for about 10 minutes, and was back to the same problem. They eventually had to wipe out the hard drive, and start from scratch!
I blame myself, in every now and then looking at XXX sites, as I believe they are the worst for allowing virus's. My Norton always catches them these days, and with SP2 having been updated, I haven't been affected by them so far.
How the heck can those that do such things as hack and build virus's do this without being caught? You would think with all of todays technology that this could be figured out...there again, the bad guys have todays technology as well I suppose!
Dale