If your Windows-based computer suddenly won't boot up, it could be the evil doing of malicious malware that deletes the contents of your computer -- farewell, documents, pictures, and videos -- and then prevents reboot.



Just spotted in the wild, it's being called either Disttrack (McAfee's name) or the Shamoon attacks (Symantec's), and researchers say it's notable because it's been a long while since they've noticed malware going to such lengths to truly make someone's life miserable in this way by deleting personal files.

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Thanks Brink, this is another really good reason for people to always make time to back-up their hard drives and it's contents also (individually). It's better to lose 30 minutes then to lose 30,000 hours of work, files and media. I thought the recent virus I had was bad, this one looks a lot worse.

Cool.