virus free, antivirus download One of the scariest moments of my life, as stupid as this sounds, was when my desktop computer stocked full of music I had collected since junior high school was attacked by a virus. As soon as the virus struck, I got the blue screen of death. It is never a good sign when a blue screen pops up. I tried rebooting the system but it would not move past the start up menu when Windows was loading. It would freeze mid load every single time. I had antivirus software running on my computer but it had not been updated since the subscription expired. I never pinpointed exactly what the virus was but it was new and powerful. My entire hard drive was wiped clean so I thought.

Luckily, I had a friend who is very computer savvy. We had to pull out the hard drive, connect it as a slave drive to his computer and pull what we could off it. Somehow all the music was still intact. I lost the majority of documents and all of the programs loaded on over the years but the music was safe. It was a relief. Not only did all that music cost a lot over the years but it was irreplaceable without years of searching high and low for random songs, artists and albums. As soon as a new OS was loaded on I found a solid antivirus download, firewall software, partitioned the hard drive and have been virus free since.