Just had a bad experience with Malwarebytes

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Ok, so my mum's retarded friend has given me her PC yet again. This time: "Word isn't installed properly and I get blue screens".

So I'm sitting here pulling my hair out trying to figure out what's wrong with Word (running absolutely fine) and trying to recreate the blue screen, looking at error logs etc...

While I'm doing that I run Malwarebytes and it picks up 187 threats. I have a look at the log before pressing "Remove" and I notice there's a whole load of infected .dll files in the System32 folder. I think "hmm, dll files? that's weird these could be important" but for some silly reason I put my trust in Malwarebytes and I hit "Remove".

Cue rebooting to finish the removal process and a blue screen after POST saying "blah blah.dll is missing or corrupt." :mad:
 
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Which operating system ?

Best bet, put the drive into another machine as a slave, or into a USB caddy, save all her files, make a note of the programs installed

Wipe the machine and reinstall - tell her it was too badly damaged to repair, which is not so far from the truth


If you choose not to format during the install, the entire previous installation gets saved to a folder on the C:\Windows.old

So you can keep that safe inside the new install incase she complains anything is missing, then just retrieve it from there
 
Hand her back PC and say "You were right! It isn;t working. Best give that to someone who knows what they are doing."

Remember to say it with a straight face.

:p
 
Caffrey said:
Tell her she needs a new PC if she's a retard :p or man up and fix.
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Thing is, IT IS A NEW COMPUTER!! LOL! I built it for her out of some old components which were lying around, which was a MASSIVE ****ing mistake :mad:. One which I just will not make again.

She has kids my age so I thought they'll be alright with using it properly. But they're so retarded they've tried to open a god damn PDF in Word and set it as the default program for PDFs :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I mean seriously? How many current 19 year olds would try to open a PDF in Word? and then complain Word "isn't installed properly".
 
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asim18 said:
Thing is, IT IS A NEW COMPUTER!! LOL! I built it for her out of some old components which were lying around, which was a MASSIVE ****ing mistake :mad:. One which I just will not make again.

She has kids my age so I thought they'll be alright with using it properly. But they're so retarded they've tried to open a god damn PDF in Word and set it as the default program for PDFs :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I mean seriously? How many current 19 year olds would try to open a PDF in Word? and then complain Word "isn't installed properly".
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If they are old parts, can't you make up an elaborate excuse?
and that pdf thing can be fixed by telling them to use Chrome :p
 
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Yeah the main components are old (cpu/mobo/gfx etc) but the case, HDD, ODD, were brand new.

And I had installed chrome and set it as the default browser, but they've defaulted back to IE...


It's Windows XP btw.
 
asim18 said:
Ok, so my mum's retarded friend has given me her PC yet again. This time: "Word isn't installed properly and I get blue screens".
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asim18 said:
She has kids my age so I thought they'll be alright with using it properly. But they're so retarded they've tried to open a god damn PDF in Word and set it as the default program for PDFs :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I mean seriously? How many current 19 year olds would try to open a PDF in Word? and then complain Word "isn't installed properly".
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LOL. i only see one retard in this thread. not being computer literate is hardly grounds to be labelled as one. it's not like the consequences of their actions were particularly serious, is it?
 
this old post from 2007 should cheer you up. it's me being just as stupid. :D

marc2003 said:
i always used to swear by regseeker back when i was on xp. so i thought i'd give it a try on vista. checked the download page and it said windows (all) was supported but not vista specifically... i guess that's my mistake because it's just hosed my vista install.... :eek:

i'm posting now from safe mode with networking but i can't get it to boot in recovery mode or normal mode. i tried restoring the backup and that appeared to import the old reg file ok but windows still won't start. so now to re-install. oh joy.....

so regseeker gets a big thumbs down from me. :D
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i don't use registry cleaners anymore. :o
 
Dammit, I wish I hadn't ran malwarebytes now. I thought I'd be nice and throw in a bit of maintenance.

Just a whole load of more work for me to do now.
 
But if the DLLs were infected, you would have had to do something about them.

Backup User folder and reload tbh!
 
You can very easily restore the OS via repair and everything will be back to normal.

3 guesses how.
 
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