# In which Mermaid dances with tears in her eyes.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-mermaid-dances-with-tears-in-her-eyes/111906>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 1, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-mermaid-dances-with-tears-in-her-eyes/111906 "2002-06-01T16:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-mermaid-dances-with-tears-in-her-eyes/111906/1 "2002-06-01T16:14:31Z")

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:Doing the happy dance 'cause my computer is back up, running and as pure and innocent as a baby bunnie nibbling on clover in the field:

Yes that’s right, I finally got my computer back up, online and with a clean slate after contracting the Love letter virus. It basically destroyed my entire file system, about 20 gigs total.

As far as I can tell, my Norton antivirus was accidently disabled and by the time I discovered it, 9,000 files were already infected. Even after Norton found and quarantined them, I couldn’t recover my system or even restart the computer. I took it in to the repair shop for reformatting. No files were saved. Thank goodness for cd-backup. (now if I can just find that program again) Most of my documents had been backed up so nothing is irreplaceable; its just gonna be a pain in the ass.

So I am a little saddened by the loss of all my time and effort but on the other hand, I now have 46.75 gigs of hard drive space just sitting here empty.

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-mermaid-dances-with-tears-in-her-eyes/111906/2 "2002-06-01T18:08:41Z")

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\< hijack \>  
I love Ultravox (thread title)  
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And reloading software is kinda fun. Congrats on getting back up and running!

Fenris

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-mermaid-dances-with-tears-in-her-eyes/111906/3 "2002-06-01T22:27:53Z")

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[hijacking my own damn thread]Thanks **Fenris** for acknowledging the ref to Ultravox. I love Midge Ure. I have a compilation cd of his titled “If I was” that I particularly like. [/hmodt]

I’ll now resume installing programs and such and thinking about that video in misty black and white {light greys and dark greys?).

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**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-mermaid-dances-with-tears-in-her-eyes/111906/4 "2002-06-02T01:46:49Z")

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\<Midge Ure hijack\>

I, too, love Midge Ure. I have the Breathe CD. It is some marvelous music.

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Congrats on the computer stuff!