Your characters will be fine. All of those are stored server-side.
The only things that you will lose are any costumes you have saved, screenshots you have taken, or bind files that you have made for yourself.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
everything will be ok. but before you wipe out your hard drive, what have you done to get rid of the virus? what virus program are you running?
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Your characters will be fine. All of those are stored server-side.
The only things that you will lose are any costumes you have saved, screenshots you have taken, or bind files that you have made for yourself.
[/ QUOTE ]Also your player notes and unpublished MArcs.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Your characters will be fine. All of those are stored server-side.
The only things that you will lose are any costumes you have saved, screenshots you have taken, or bind files that you have made for yourself.
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Oh and don't forget the update that has to re-download and install. That puppy can take some time on a slow connection. 
Demonfest - 50 - Demon / Thermal Mastermind
Covered Shadow - 50 - Dark Melee / Shield Scrapper
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everything will be ok. but before you wipe out your hard drive, what have you done to get rid of the virus? what virus program are you running?
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Yeah, been getting a few (1 out of 10 or on good nights, 1 ourof 30) internet visits a "page load error" or "page not found" message. I am running McAfee also have RegCure and XoftSpySE. Me thinks it might be a virus as it has been happening for the past 40 days but cannot be 100% sure. This does seem to happen of every browser, Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari. Having cable guy come out Saturday to check modem and see if I may have some kind of firewall up or something with proxy server, I have no idea what may cause this. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to throw them my way.
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I am running McAfee
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Found your problem 
(/sarcasm).
get rid of all of that garbage. download Avast and malwarebytes, both of which are free to use, and run those. Avast runs constantly and does not mess with the game and will catch almost anything trying to get in and stop it before it does. malwarebytes is also good for catching something that Avast might not which almost never happens.
This is why I always make two partitions on my harddrive (or even use 2 seperate physical drives)... put just the operating system on one, and install all programs on the other. I also keep a folder with all the drivers I need for my computer in it on this second partition/drive so I don't have to re-download them.
That way, if you have to wipe the operating system drive/partition clean (99.99999999% of the time this will get rid of any viruses/etc., which are usually tied to the registry, which is part of the operating system, and sometimes it's faster to just wipe it and start over rather than trying to clean things), you don't lose everything else in the process. I even have one machine with 2 physical drives (One SATA, One IDE), but one partitioned: one partition for the operating system, one partition for active installs, and the other physical drive (the IDE) just for non-active storage.
In the case of CoX, I never worry about losing any local personal data (i.e. screenshots, bind files, MA-stuff, costumes(?), etc.), but also the updates to the game that would have to be re-downloaded/applied before I can play again.
If you're only wiping the part of the drive (or a seperate physical drive) that doesn't have the game files on it, you can just rename folders and skip the download/re-apply update step after reinstalling:
1. Change "X:/City of Heroes" to "X:/City of Backups"
2. Reinstall the game from the disk to a new "X:/City of Heroes" folder
3. Delete the "new" installation folder
4. Rename "X:/City of Backups" back to "X:/City of Heroes".
5. Start playing right away without having to re-download/apply updates (well, the updater will update, but then it'll recognize that you have the correct game version).
FTR, I don't use ANY virus software, just the basic Windows XP Pro Firewall, and I haven't had to wipe my computer in about 3 years (and then it was a data corruption issue rather than viral issues). I should also note that I DO visit questionable sites occasionally.
Simple question, and I think I know the answer. I am thinking about reformatting my computer and clearing out my hard drive as I may have a virus embedded somewhere and using my restore disk to bring my computer back to its original specs.
So, with that being said, having to remove all my programs and re-install them again, am I at risk of losing anything on my CoX account or is this backed up to a central server so my toons will be okay? To some, this may be a silly question, but you know what they say, there is no such thing as a silly question, only a silly answer,...lol. Thanks to all who reply. : )