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leftism
01-12-2004, 01:42 AM
Tonight I was finishing off this project for Uni that I've been working on for weeks and I copied it to a floppy so I could hand it in tomorrow.

I'm just about to take the floppy out and turn the computer off when all of a sudden I hear the floppy drive going mental. I was like WTF?? I didnt want to take the floppy out whilst it was being accessed cos thats suicide so I looked in the task manager list of processes to see what was accessing it.

Imagine my horror when I saw this program eraser (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/) in the list using up loads of CPU! :o :o :o

I was like "NOOOO IVE BEEN HAXORED" :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

I thought some evil bastard was wiping weeks worth of work!! So I ripped the cable out of my modem like a lunatic and stopped the eraser process in task manager.

Turns out that the eraser scheduler was set to wipe the unused space on the floppy drive at midnight every night! :lol:

I almost shit my pants! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Autumn Fox
01-12-2004, 01:58 AM
:P And what feeling of relife you had to have, aye ? Fine, fine story. :D