Dukat
Resident Freddy
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Hey all.
I recently got a nasty trojan off of a website I thought was safe, I'm moderately experienced with dealing with such things but this thing is nastier than anything I've previously seen before.
here's a bit of info on what I'm pretty sure I have: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;903251
Ok, so the symptoms are that the computer restarts or shuts down as soon as(if not before) it loads.
It seemed to be starting off with just rebooting when I logged into normal mode. I tried going in through safe mode and was able to stay in there and tried to find and delete the relevant registry keys. I looked for the keys listed on the microsoft page I linked to above but I couldnt find any of them. I'm still pretty sure that what I have is a variant of this though, as I am getting the same reboot symptoms and the files klo5.sys and ps.a3d both exist.
Before I was locked out I did a search and checked for files created in the last 3 hours, I got those two files and none others that looked suspicous.
anyways, the stage I'm at now is that every time I turn the computer on it reboots before I get anywhere at all. I've tried booting from the windows CD but it still reboots the computer immediatly, before I get any options at all.
I'm really stuck here, I cant seem to get into the computer at all.
Not sure what information will help for this aside from what I've said so far, but if you think you can help ask away and I'll try and get as much info as I can.
I would try formatting it, but I have several assignments on that computer and without them I'm in a REALLY bad position.
any help much appreciated.
I recently got a nasty trojan off of a website I thought was safe, I'm moderately experienced with dealing with such things but this thing is nastier than anything I've previously seen before.
here's a bit of info on what I'm pretty sure I have: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;903251
Ok, so the symptoms are that the computer restarts or shuts down as soon as(if not before) it loads.
It seemed to be starting off with just rebooting when I logged into normal mode. I tried going in through safe mode and was able to stay in there and tried to find and delete the relevant registry keys. I looked for the keys listed on the microsoft page I linked to above but I couldnt find any of them. I'm still pretty sure that what I have is a variant of this though, as I am getting the same reboot symptoms and the files klo5.sys and ps.a3d both exist.
Before I was locked out I did a search and checked for files created in the last 3 hours, I got those two files and none others that looked suspicous.
anyways, the stage I'm at now is that every time I turn the computer on it reboots before I get anywhere at all. I've tried booting from the windows CD but it still reboots the computer immediatly, before I get any options at all.
I'm really stuck here, I cant seem to get into the computer at all.
Not sure what information will help for this aside from what I've said so far, but if you think you can help ask away and I'll try and get as much info as I can.
I would try formatting it, but I have several assignments on that computer and without them I'm in a REALLY bad position.
any help much appreciated.