Thank You True Image!

Having a terrible day on Friday, couldn't sleep, debit card refused and then the wife phones me at work to say "Darling, the computers got an error on it."
OMG, what error
"isass.exe bad image"
How the ... did the sasser worm get on a stealthed PC with up to date security?
did a google at work, perhaps it its lsass.exe?

Anyway, went to work straight away on the PC when I got home, it was lsass.exe bad image. So tried the fixes for lsass.exe bad image - none of the safe mode work arounds worked

So got my True Image disk out, booted from the drive and found the faulty file and copied that over, re booted the PC and no, that didn't work. So I had no choice but to do a full image recovery, knowing I would loose any data from the last week, but that is a small price to pay considering I could have lost all my photos, emails and documents by a full system rebuild (I have a Dell).

An hour or so later and I was back in operation, I recovered the emails we lost from my google mail catch-all and everything is fine.

So 10/10 Acronis for True Image

 

Hello SteveBlanchard,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup software

Thank you very much for your comments and sharing your experience.

--
Michael Levchenko

 

Steve -- You would have gone one better still if you had partitioned your drive into C: (for the OS) and D: (just for storage and data). Then you can easily restore whole operating system on drive C: without touching any of the data on D:
It's a doddle -- and though luckily I've never yet had a virus, I've often used Acronis just to pop back yesterday's Drive C: for example if a new piece of software has misbehaved & has not maybe uninstalled 100%.
For partitioning I use Partition Magic, bought & now sold by Symantec, basically because it's so easy; but there are many other ways of creating partitions -- & Windows itself will also do the job.