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Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« on: December 12, 2008, 10:02:37 PM » |
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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
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 10:35:21 PM » |
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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.
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2008, 10:52:36 PM » |
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$80 new hard drive, with kaspersky ($80 more, 3 license / 1 year) for good measure.
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2008, 05:01:37 AM » |
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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.
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2008, 05:17:28 AM » |
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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?
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2008, 07:04:34 AM » |
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Be careful you don't damage the MRI apparatus.
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2008, 07:11:23 AM » |
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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. ![Anonymous](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/anon.gif) The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif)
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2008, 08:58:59 AM » |
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2008, 09:03:56 AM » |
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*awaits torpedo avast-bot post* ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) (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. ![Rolling](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/rrollin.gif)
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2008, 10:24:25 AM » |
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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. ![Anonymous](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/anon.gif) The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) CMOS surrenders. The hard drive isn't the only programmable device on a computer.
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2008, 10:31:27 AM » |
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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. ![Anonymous](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/anon.gif) The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) 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. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif)
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2008, 10:42:13 AM » |
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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. ![Anonymous](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/anon.gif) The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) 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. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) So, run the whole computer through the MRI. ![Devil](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/devil.gif)
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2008, 11:37:15 AM » |
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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. ![Anonymous](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/anon.gif) The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) 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 ?
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2008, 02:29:08 PM » |
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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. ![Anonymous](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/anon.gif) The Aske solution is looking like the ticket. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) 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.
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Re: Mega F'ed Up Infected PC Recomendations?
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2008, 02:46:52 PM » |
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$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, ![Wink](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/wink.gif) always wanting to take the easy way out. ( ![Disgusted](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/disgust.gif) <--- 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* ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) (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 ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) ), I just don't like it as much. ![Grin](http://www.golfhos.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif) 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*
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