Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4423426-20150720113809

This only occured over night, and it practically made no difference to the Wiki whatsoever as it was quickly fixed, however I feel I must notify you all in case it happens again.

My laptop was hit with a virus. My laptop has been slow for months, so if it's to do with age or the virus affected it long-term, I will never know, but point is  it became infected with Adware, got even slower than before and my sister told me this morning that it was unable to load the internet, and our antivirus software couldn't get rid of it. So what we did in the end is a total system restore, and the laptop  is fast again...but I don't know. This isn't the first time we've done a system restore on this very laptop(I gotta say it's pretty resillient for this to be able to happen twice) 20 TIMES TWICE

and last time there were no issues to be seen, which was way back in like 2013 or something. I've had this laptop since 2012, making it the longest I've ever had a laptop ever so it's been worthwhile either way.

Let's get to the point though:

I  stupidly downloaded Sonic 2 HD, even though in the past it has also caused trouble for me on older laptops, and that's because I thought the fact a trusted partnered YouTuber(Cobanermani456) linked it in the description, meant it was virus free, but no. It had the laptop pretty badly, and actually it's been slow for months. Google searches have taken forever, so I don't truly know what caused that aspect because google searching and general browsing is fine as hell right now.

The good news is, I'm the sort of person who stores everything on a USB for easy access(It has allowed me to get away with playing emulators on school laptops as well)

so it doesn't affect me too much. Not much was lost. However, out of request my sister reserved the emulator I use for SEGA Genesis recording(Gens-- but I use Fusion if I just want to play games) and the fan game Sonic Before the Sequel. Most of my emulators and roms, and other stuff are on my USB because I learned a long time ago not to rely on hard drives too much--something could easily go wrong.

TL:DR: My laptop got a virus, I system restored, I have Adblock back and I'm making this thread so that if something goes wrong in the future and I suddenly vanish from the Wiki, you'll know my plight. 