sged Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Couple days ago my son clicked on a link that appeared in chatbox while talking to a friend of his, since then my pc was bugged by a trojan... I had several warnings from my AV program, moved the bloody thing to chest, but it keeps appearing when the pc is started up. My guttfeeling tells me that the virus resides in the windows 32 folder "sigh", so AV program can't remove the entire folder since it's in use. This morning, pc starts up, bit slower then usual, then finally goes to desktop, and all I can do is stare at the pic I placed there, but nothing else, no folders, no bar, no start button, no nothing... I've tried to repair the system with the disk, but at the end, when it says "windows starting up, be patient, nothing more happens, that screen was there for about an hour, before I rebooted, to have the same result at the end. Anyone knows what I can do to fix this, or am I looking at a full reinstall of windows? thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted March 22, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Try starting Windows in Safe mode. (After the Bios screen has gone, press F8 repeatedly, a start menu should appear, from which you can choose 'Safe mode'. Note: you won't have Internet access in that mode...) But, you'd first need to get some cleaners downloaded from a different pc, and put it on a CD (Spybot Search and Destroy, and if you can identify the virus, a manual cleaning procedure...) Good Luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sged Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Ok, thx for the info, will try it out, and will look for the exact location and name of the virus, hope I can manually remove it, will update! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sged Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Man, this is a virus from hell!! When I start up in safe modus, all goes well untill welcomescreen....have to be very fast to click on admin istrator or my name, when I can, it gives me an error msg, and pc promptly restarts again...can't even see what the error msg says lol... I guess this trojan was build to piss ppl off in a serious way, not even letting us try to repair. I guess this will be the end and I'll have to reinstall everything again dangit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted March 22, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Avira do a Linux boot disk image for moments like this: http://dl1.pro.antivir.de/package/rescue_system/common/en/rescue_system-common-en.exe Worth a try if you have another PC to burn the image with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sged Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 So what does it exactly do roger? Since I can't start up properly...and when I get the desktop that is nomore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted March 22, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 The disk Roger refers to, is a bootable disk, so basically, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted March 22, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 +1 What FT said, it is an up to date virus recovery bootable CD image. Fingers crossed it works for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sged Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Thx so far! need to run to the store for new disks to burn lol... will try next thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sged Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ok, booted the pc with the cd, and I guess its scanning now, since my screen went on standby... Will see later what pc does later this evening. Will update, and thx for the good info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sged Posted March 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 The cd did the job! It found the file wich gave me troubles, I found it sitting on my desktop, and deleted it, pc clean now and up and running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted March 28, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Great A lot easier than rebuilding too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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