Hackers

Fairly unimpressed with hackers at the moment.

Someone has managed to hack into my laptop and change the access privileges to exclude all of the users on my laptop - with hilarious consequences.

I am currently reinstalling Windows in a decidedly chilly computer cluster and keeping my fingers crossed that:

a) I won't have lost all my files in the process
b) It finishes considerably quicker than the 25 minutes quoted
c) I get back in time for Big Brother

I would advise all of you to buy a commercial firewall, as I can only imagine the hacker bypassed the Windows firewall (which probably wasn't that challenging considering the quality of the rest of the operating system). Big grr!