Title: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: stroh on December 12, 2008, 10:02:37 PM My buddy's laptop.(X2 actually). I have no idea what's on it, but whatever it is, it's good.
I've done everything I can think of. It won't format from a good XP disc. Stops at about 57%. When it runs the Windows that's on it, it prevents you from accessing the add/remove programs from the control panel, and turns off the Windows firewall, and anything else you throw on it. Norton finds nothing. Spysweeper finds nothing, but on a reboot, it turns both protections off. I'm tapped. It's FUBARed. Any Ideas before I take them into work tomorrow and put them into the MRI to wipe everything to the tune of 1.5 Tesla? TIA Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Clive on December 12, 2008, 10:35:21 PM We've had two laptops that traveled to China come back with a vicious infection. IT could find it and delete it, but it regenerated itself. No matter what, he couldn't eradicate it. Hard-drive wipe was the final solution.
Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Aske on December 12, 2008, 10:52:36 PM $80 new hard drive, with kaspersky ($80 more, 3 license / 1 year) for good measure.
Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: stroh on December 13, 2008, 05:01:37 AM That's probably the way to go. I have never seen anything like this. Whatever is on these things is vicious, like Clive said. It completely dominates the thing.
I think I will pull the hard drive on at leas one of them and take it into the magnet to see what happens. Unless someone gives me a reason not to between now and then. Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: stroh on December 13, 2008, 05:17:28 AM Another quick question. On laptop 2, which I only spent a little time on....when I put the boot disk in it said unable to find a connected hard drive. What's that about?
Shut down and reboot, Winblows XP comes up, infected as evar. Just fuxxor3d? Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Clive on December 13, 2008, 07:04:34 AM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus.
Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: stroh on December 13, 2008, 07:11:23 AM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus. LOL It stuck pretty good. I think it was a bad idea however. Now the pc won't boot from the cd at all. Ooops. [sm_anon] The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ;D Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Aske on December 13, 2008, 08:58:59 AM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136279
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/internet-security.php currently on sale ! :o Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Aske on December 13, 2008, 09:03:56 AM *awaits torpedo avast-bot post*
;D (avast is a fine product too, I just don't like it as much ) *other options include running (repeated) hijack this* scan(s) and posting it in their forums and trying to really fix the current problems, but it sounds f'd up beyond that time/effort* whatever you do with AV/Firewall stuff (kaspersky or other.. but not mccrapafee or *feces*mantic), set them on ultrahigh security modes, set them on self-protect (no uninstall / settings change without password) , and set a password this guy won't know. [sm_rolling] Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: gleek on December 13, 2008, 10:24:25 AM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus. LOL It stuck pretty good. I think it was a bad idea however. Now the pc won't boot from the cd at all. Ooops. [sm_anon] The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ;D CMOS surrenders. The hard drive isn't the only programmable device on a computer. Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: stroh on December 13, 2008, 10:31:27 AM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus. LOL It stuck pretty good. I think it was a bad idea however. Now the pc won't boot from the cd at all. Ooops. [sm_anon] The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ;D CMOS surrenders. The hard drive isn't the only programmable device on a computer. Oh, I thought of that too. (and uh........you know) I think that's why they won't boot from the cd, and now the cd tray won't stay shut on one. ;D Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: tdcoly on December 13, 2008, 10:42:13 AM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus. LOL It stuck pretty good. I think it was a bad idea however. Now the pc won't boot from the cd at all. Ooops. [sm_anon] The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ;D CMOS surrenders. The hard drive isn't the only programmable device on a computer. Oh, I thought of that too. (and uh........you know) I think that's why they won't boot from the cd, and now the cd tray won't stay shut on one. ;D So, run the whole computer through the MRI. [sm_devil] Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Aske on December 13, 2008, 11:37:15 AM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus. LOL It stuck pretty good. I think it was a bad idea however. Now the pc won't boot from the cd at all. Ooops. [sm_anon] The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ;D CMOS surrenders. The hard drive isn't the only programmable device on a computer. LOL, if the BIOS is hosed (no offense to Stroh) do we think he can fix it ? Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: gleek on December 13, 2008, 02:29:08 PM Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus. LOL It stuck pretty good. I think it was a bad idea however. Now the pc won't boot from the cd at all. Ooops. [sm_anon] The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ;D CMOS surrenders. The hard drive isn't the only programmable device on a computer. LOL, if the BIOS is hosed (no offense to Stroh) do we think he can fix it ? On a desktop, he might have had a chance just replacing the motherboard (which is the approach that I would have taken), but we're talking notebook here. It's probably good as toast. Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: Torpedo on December 13, 2008, 02:46:52 PM $80 new hard drive, with kaspersky ($80 more, 3 license / 1 year) for good measure. Uh-oh Aske, you're sounding like the GeekSquad guys, ;) always wanting to take the easy way out. ([sm_disgust] <--- directed at GeekSquad) [GeekSquad rant] Earlier this year I fixed a PC for a friend of ours that was so virus and malware infested that when he had GeekSquad and 2 other separate techs he knows look at it none of them would even touch it long enough to format it, let alone fix it, (rebooting took 25+ minutes after the desktop was loaded) and all 3 said to just throw it away. (It wasn't that old of a laptop, with a RAM upgrade it would be plenty nice.) But they were too lazy to get paid to actually have to *work* on a PC for a change and not just format it and re-install Windows. These guys are supposed to be techs, they get paid major bucks, anyway ... long story short going by GeekSquad's rates I did over $1,500 worth of work on it (completely fixed it - without formatting) for free. [/GeekSquad rant] *awaits torpedo avast-bot post* ;D (avast is a fine product too, I just don't like it as much ) Kaspersky is a fine product too (excluding their explorer.exe incident - you knew it was coming ;D), I just don't like it as much. ;D But at least we both agree: Avast/Kaspersky >>>>> Norton/Mcaffe. other options include running (repeated) hijack this* scan(s) and posting it in their forums and trying to really fix the current problems, but it sounds **** up beyond that time/effort* I read my own HJT logs. ;) Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: gleek on December 13, 2008, 02:50:04 PM ...long story short going by GeekSquad's rates I did over $1,500 worth of work on it (completely fixed it - without formatting) for free. It's a good thing that you're used to not getting paid. ;D Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: stroh on December 16, 2008, 06:21:20 PM Pro Tip (http://www.ocdsb.ca/Secondary_Websites/Teacher_Res/beamtut/Images/lightbulb.gif) Do not introduce your 120 gigabyte Serial ATA HDD into a 1.5 Tesla field strength clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner. Title: Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations? Post by: MFAWG on December 16, 2008, 06:28:58 PM (http://www.foodcity.com/photoLib/98863Kellogg-RiceKrispStraw.jpg)
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