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01/30/2007 10:42:37 PM · #1 |
Yesterday my computer at home suffered a terrible blow. There was a trojan horse psw virus that kept coming back no matter how many times I deleted it with avg. Yesterday it seems it went into action (same day as Vista release...).
Now when I boot up, I can only open one folder ever before rebooting; the thumbnails don't appear but at least I was able to view the photos (once, so far). Programs won't open. Memory has gone to the pits. Now a virus scan will only scan 850 objects instead of 110,000+.
And it seems I can't transfer folders to a portable HDD either. I hadn't backed up any of January's photos yet, which means none of my self-portraits that I took since last Thursday but not edited are currently uneditable.
Any helpful suggestions? |
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01/30/2007 10:44:31 PM · #2 |
| Are you doing your virus scan in safe mode? |
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01/30/2007 10:48:12 PM · #3 |
ICK!
I'm not sure this is the "right" way, but if that happened to me, I would buy a new hard drive (they're cheap enough nowadays), install your operating system, set up as normal from scratch, then hook up the old drive as a slave, go into it as a file storage drive only so it's operating system isn't launched, copy & paste them to the new drive, scan them, then low-level format the old drive.
When you are done, at least you will have a second drive to store files...
Oh yeah - or do as Kat mentioned ^
(I forgot about safe mode)
Message edited by author 2007-01-30 22:49:33.
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01/30/2007 10:54:34 PM · #4 |
ZAR hook the HDD to another drive and run Zero Assumption Recovery tools.. Make sure you copy the files to the other computers HDD you dont want to write over the old hdd till u get the stuff off
NEVERMIND. If your still able to access the files on the old drive then yeah copy them off to a safe machine that has antivirus on it
Message edited by author 2007-01-30 22:55:26.
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01/30/2007 10:58:24 PM · #5 |
research your virus, especially with geekstogo.com they often have something very specific.
I had a virus that wasn't covered by my AV program, but there was a special program written just for it that worked like a charm.
Also, make sure you do everything in safe mode. until you are clean as clean, you ain't clean...
I do a series of tests to check once I get infected.
Trend Microsystems/panda/Kaspersky have online scanners that occasionally take care of something that AVG misses.
AVG of course, but that's more resident protection.
then spyware and adware
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01/30/2007 11:46:48 PM · #6 |
I tried booting in Safe Mode, but it's been so long since I've had to do it (and not on my current computer, which has been rock steady), that I can't really remember which Function key it is. F8 didn't work.
eta: By the way, it's a Toshiba Satellite laptop.
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01/30/2007 11:50:17 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
I tried booting in Safe Mode, but it's been so long since I've had to do it (and not on my current computer, which has been rock steady), that I can't really remember which Function key it is. F8 didn't work. |
F8 is Win 95, 98, SE, 2000 & XP's door into Safe Mode.
Make sure your fkey lock is off though or it won't work.
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01/31/2007 01:00:26 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
I tried booting in Safe Mode, but it's been so long since I've had to do it (and not on my current computer, which has been rock steady), that I can't really remember which Function key it is. F8 didn't work.
eta: By the way, it's a Toshiba Satellite laptop. |
i have a toshiba satellite laptop too, i had to format it awhile back, just run your finger from F1-F8 its in there somewhere. It worked for me. |
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01/31/2007 01:06:10 AM · #9 |
WIndows XP the time frame isnt very big fromt he moment ur boot screen starts to disapear before the XP screen come sup just start tapping the F8 key about twice a second just not o much but be plentyful.
ALos the Windows XP CD allows for a Repair Install or if your good u can try recovery console wont do much good though the repair install might.
Message edited by author 2007-01-31 01:06:47.
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01/31/2007 01:08:53 AM · #10 |
start>>run>>msconfig
choose diagnostic startup
reboot |
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