Windows Home Server Saves the Day – Again

Sean Daniel has a great read about a fellow Microsoft employee’s father who, thanks to Windows Home Server, had a working PC again after it was infected with a nasty virus.

“Fast forward to last night around 9:30 at night when my father calls me in a panic stating that my mom is going to kill him for being on “her” computer. All he wanted to do was quickly check some Pittsburgh Steelers news site that he frequents. Well that site had a link to another site that my dad decided to check out and BLAM virus! We have all dealt with viruses before, some worse than others but this one was really annoying and pretty well thought out if I do say so myself. The virus somehow watched for any .exe file to be run and then popped up a dialog saying the .exe you ran contained a virus and to pay $39.99 to remove the virus. I tried all the usual tools to help me get rid of viruses in the past taskmgr, cmd, regedit and msconfig none of them would launch, I even got frustrated and tried sol, spider and chess also blocked.”

Thanks to the WHS restore CD the PC was restored to the following evenings state, virus free.

The full story can be read here.

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