Bye Bye Data

Wouldn't this just tick you off? You make one mistake and get a virus. That is bad enough. If you are lucky it's just a mass mailer and none of your data is at "real" risk. Maybe you get something that does a little damage to an app or some files. It could be worse. You might get infected with a bot program or a keystroke logger. Not pretty. Yet if you don't do any financial related work on your PC even that isn't so bad. What could possible be the worst thing is a virus that actually deletes files from you machine. Especially one that deletes OS files. Now you are hosed. You have to rebuild and for many that means losing data because they don't back up and don't know how to recover what may be left on the system.

Oh wait, it can get worse. Not only does the virus delete your files it tells you it's doing it and taunts you as it happens. That is one cold hearted virus writer.