warning about virus on Google images.

I wrote awhile back about having a virus attack my computer and I have found out more about how and where I found it. My computer guy told me that he was going to let me use a computer that I could not hurt, slide out "c" drive, and then he told me to look at the sites that I normally go to. I went to the normal ones like Dpreview, Nikonian, Steve Huff, Thom Hogan and others. All I picked up were tracking cookies. Then I went to the Google Homepage, and clicked on images. I looked for 2010 carolina renaissance festival and several hundred shots came up. I looked at the one that I had found before and nothing happened, but then I clicked on another similar photo, and again I got hit with a different virus than what I had before. I started searching and when ever I found a file with grun.lu below it, bingo, another virus.

I sent an email to Google this morning, but I checked just a while ago, and they hadn't fixed the problem. I am having to rebuild my workstation. I have all of my programs that I will reload, and I have multi levels of back up, including an archival file that isn't connected to my system, but I am not sure of my two other externals that were connected to the system. I am not sure just how much work I have lost, but I had shots from 50 years ago on my site. My most important work is on Photoshelter, so I could download that if I need to and I had backed up the first of last month.

I am thinking about keeping my 8gb cards just like you would store a roll of film. Cost has dropped so much, that you wouldn't be out that much cash.

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