

After, while lying in bed I thought maybe I should check to see if the Cakewalk download could possibly be behind it so I popped open my Android tablet. I was frustrated by gave up for the night. I tried restoring from Safe Mode but even though it said the restore was successful everything was still gone. It never occurred to me that the Cakewalk download could be the culprit. No files, favorites, programs that I had installed. The next evening I turned the laptop on again and it looked like a fresh install of windows had taken place.

Pages started flipping and the screen flashed a couple times and that was it. I specified that I wanted it only saved to my desktop which did not happen. I went ahead, however there was a warning thing that came up and it asked me if I trusted the site, I said yes. From their link it took me to an "early release" download button. I received an email from Harmony Central announcing that Cakewalk was back in action, which thrilled me to pieces. Reaper's support is awesome but I just couldn't find my way with it. When I heard that Henry over at Gibson had dropped Cakewalk out of spite I abandoned it and tried to get a handle on Reaper. About a year or two ago I bought Sonar Home Studio. I have been a Cakewalk user for 20 years from back when you bought it in a box from the music store. Update^^^ I am very sorry to have blamed Cakewalk/Bandlab for what happened. All of these files are gone, all user programs are gone (empty links). I've spent hours formatting songs in pdf files to on this laptop to transfer to my tablet for use with an Airturn pedal.

Not only did it wipe out my HP W7 laptop, it erased the portable Passport hard drive that I just purchased 2 weeks ago. All or this has disappeared today other than the Overload waning. Just before bed I searched another pc (a tablet) and there was endless warnings and acknowledgment of the virus. Last night I tried system restore from safe mode. Yesterday after work I started up the laptop and everything was wiped clean. The PC that I record on is not connected to the internet, I didn't go so far as transferring to that PC luckily. I thought I'd just save the file to my desktop and not open or run it. A thing popped up warning me and asking if I trusted the site. I clicked on the link "get early release download". I was pleased as I had purchased Sonar Home Studio not very long ago (also purchased other CW products over the years). Night before last I received notification that Cakewalk was up and running.
