Virus, rendered PC useless.

unknownsock

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Right, somehow i managed to get a virus last night, completely forgot i had turned off my anti virus the day prior..

It started off by making my spyware S&D going crazy with notifications with a bunch of .exe and .dll files..
Then a bunch of notifications in my taskbar from this amazing new program anti spyware 'soft i think.
After so long it wouldn't let me open any application, and i mean every .exe file. it wouldn't even log out as logout.exe was infected :rolleyes:

So a restart later and my windows now just blue screens on start up as some of the windows files are missing.
I can't seem to repair it, not access anything off the disk that requires something running. Even when i use the original windows disk to try and repair via it.
From my point of view it seems to have somehow shutdown every appl, or made them inactive and blocked it? Not sure.

I did another windows install on my storage/backup HDD, and that all seems to be fine, so it just seems to be my primary disk.

But i have this setup in raid 0, which leaves me were i'm stuck
The only practical thing i've done is access DOS, although i really not sure if this will help...

IF anyone has some suggestions i'd be greatly appreaciated!
I have a good 600gb of data on there (100+gb from steam :o), it's not all massively important but i'd rather not spend all weekend restoring it to default.
 
Can you access Safe Mode?

If so, scan from there with Anti-virus etc, also use Malwarebytes if possible. You may need to re-name the exe files to something else, such as test.exe.

Other options would be to scan the disk in another PC, or just reformat and restore from backup.
 
This is where restore programmes like GOBACK can save the day for me because no matter how borked windows is I can tap the spacebar immediately after the first post screen & the GOBACK screen appears before windows even starts.
With multiple restore points to choose from I can usually select up to 3 days ago.
Windows built in system restore is pretty useless if you can't actually load windows in the first place
 
Oh sorry should have clarified more.
Even safe mode blue screens, the details i get when i try to repair with the windows cd suggests this virus seems to have blocked everything.

I'm at work at the moment so i don't have every detail.

Tbh im gonna try everything i can find as i just can't be arsed doing a new install.
Just got starcraft 2 beta aswell :rolleyes:
 
unknownsock said:
Oh sorry should have clarified more.
Even safe mode blue screens, the details i get when i try to repair with the windows cd suggests this virus seems to have blocked everything.

I'm at work at the moment so i don't have every detail.

Tbh im gonna try everything i can find as i just can't be arsed doing a new install.
Just got starcraft 2 beta aswell :rolleyes:
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45min reinstall V several days messing about?

you could stick the drive in another PC and copy the files back that it says are missing, if you have a copy of the files and another PC... or boot from a bart pe or what ever its called CD to copy the files abck
 
Download Linux
Burn to disc
Boot from disc
Backup
Reinstall windows.

If I ever get a serious virus, I would rather reinstall than play around with a duff or compromised windows.
 
unknownsock said:
It started off by making my spyware S&D going crazy with notifications with a bunch of .exe and .dll files..
Then a bunch of notifications in my taskbar from this amazing new program anti spyware 'soft i think.
After so long it wouldn't let me open any application, and i mean every .exe file. it wouldn't even log out as logout.exe was infected :rolleyes:
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The same thing happened to me last night on my laptop and I was running Antivirus software.

I managed to catch it pretty early, boot up in safe mode and disabled the startup of something called Iwtuckbf which has stopped all the .exe warnings and spyware popups.
Apps open fine now but I now can't access the internet on that machine.
 
I've just fix the internet problem.
The virus had changed my Browser Connection settings to a LAN :eek: Changed it to auto detect and it works again :)

Going to run all the Virus checkers and scanners to be sure I've killed it.
 
unknownsock said:
Considering i have a tonne of data i need i would rather try.

And their in raid 0 so i cant just take my drives out.
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So you have a load of data that you value, you're storing it on raid 0, and have no backup?

Brave man!


Can I ask how you got the virus?
 
late night knuckle shuffle I reckon.

But yes, take this as a lesson learned, never store important info on C:, ever.

Learnt it the hard way myself I might add many moons ago.
 
bledd. said:
So you have a load of data that you value, you're storing it on raid 0, and have no backup?

Brave man!


Can I ask how you got the virus?
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Actually i have 90% of my stuff backed up already, i just dont re download or install. It's just a couple of files that i havnt got round to backing up yet.

With my other windows installed on my other harddrive should i be able to see the raid0 drive, if i installed the drivers upon installing windows? Or is it locked to my original install, as i've tried i just cant get it to show up..
 
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