OT-Virus

[-Lonewolf-]

Er...know shouldn't post here but hopefully some of my new guild may see it

Got hit by a serious virus last night which proceeded to kill my entire machine infecting everything

So thought woo format reinstall CD, however the CD seems to be corrupt now........can't be the virus so no idea wtf is going on

Anyhow just wanted to say in case not on for a little bit

Lesson to everyone to keep ya virus cleaner updated dunno what this puppy was called but spread like wild fire

 

[Xandax]

Getting attacked each day by vira and trojan horses.
Mostly Klez.H@rmm and Backdoor/SubSeven.
(getting at least 3 virus infected emails and 1 trojan horse per day )

Dunno what could have happened to your CD though - seems wierd.

 

[-Lonewolf-]

Yeah totally bemused I am, as installing it came up with cannot copy file, your Windows 2000 CD maybe corrupt or malfunctioning I was like WTF!??!

So carried on installing ignoring the error thinking naaaaa its just dust on the CD and then BOOM BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) on the final part of the install

So now I am hunting at work for replacement OS, typical 1.50 comes out and I get a dud machine

 

[CBH_Music]

hmm maby vira have dmg u HD in some sectors

 

[Ensceptifica]

Long shot here, but maybe it either infected your master boot record or your bios. Theoretically it is possible. Never heard of a virus infecting your cdromdrive tbh, but I guess anything flashable can be infected. Another option is that your cdromdrive is simply malfunctioning, not necessarily caused by the virus (this happened to a friend of mine last week). Try it with another cddrive and another windows installation cd first before attempting any of the following.

Resetting your master boot record can be done with fdisk /mbr (boot from floppy or cd). Long time since I used fdisk, but I think you'll have to repartition and reformat the lot after that, coz it basically wipes the filesystem from your HD. Only way to be sure your entire HD is cleaned.

Resetting your bios to default values can be either done from the bios itself, or by removing the battery from your mainboard and then putting it back. That should get rid of anything infecting your bios.

Use these tips at your own risk, and anyone more knowledgable on these things please correct me where needed.

 

[-Lonewolf-]

Aye music thats what I am scared has happened :/

But thanks alot Enscep I will try those things out and I will try grabbing a new CD with a OS on it see if it is the actual CD or the computer

Can but pray, bloody viruses are hell on computers spent well over 4hrs from 8-12am trying to fix it last night

 

[rajder]

Simply formatting wont help u.
As the virus may be in the bootsector of the harddrive.

Turn of yout computer entirely w8 a while b4 turning it on like 6 Sec.
Get a boot disk "floppy" or bootable CD.
Boot up on the CD, and go into command prompt.

Do a Fdisk /mbr <driveletter:>
to reset to MS bootsector "a clean one".
Formatting your "bootable" partition at this time is a good idea.

Then install OS, i would suggest u get a virusscanner asap since u seem to get shit like that.

ALSO take away ALL publik writable network shares on your harddrive.
As this is a welcome target for LAN spreading viruses. Escescially if u are using win XP.

 

[-Lonewolf-]

U sir are a scholar

 

[old.Nol]

/em rubs OS X
/s I love you...

 

[Tranquil-]

<forms a cross with his fingers>
/y THOU SHALL NOT CORRUPT ME!

 

[-Lonewolf-]

LOL

 

[old.Nol]

...

notice how much an X looks like a rotated + (cross)?

/mwhahahahahahahahaha

 

[-Lonewolf-]

Help me Obi Wan Nolby ur my only hope

 

[sorusi]

Oh, really sad to hear

Hope you solve it m8, some day i would like to assasinate some of those virus/trojan programmers - they really need a punch in the nuts so they wont have children = more of the scums

 

[-Lonewolf-]

Ah cool yeah could u tell Arth Sorusi and the rest hopefully get it solved tonight

Just getting BIOS replacement downloaded and will format it all when get home and stuff!

Then hopefully get online for some ganking really haven't tried my RA's out yet

 

[osy]

one word: Deep-Freeze

 

[Exiled]

Originally posted by old.Osy
one word: Deep-Freeze

As used by Stockport MBC to protect the libary (i can never spell that) PC's from attacks, get it

 

[Vireb]

Originally posted by Xandax
Getting attacked each day by vira and trojan horses.
Mostly Klez.H@rmm and Backdoor/SubSeven.
(getting at least 3 virus infected emails and 1 trojan horse per day )

Dunno what could have happened to your CD though - seems wierd.

/em thinks you should get some new friends

 

[-Lonewolf-]

The nightmare continues turns out the Virus has become resident in the memory, so have to pull the battery out and kill it off

F**k me I never knew they could be so potent, god help anyone who gets this virus its a bloody killer!