Virus, rendered PC useless.

unknownsock · 7 May 2010 at 14:02

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

), it's not all massively important but i'd rather not spend all weekend restoring it to default.

unknownsock · 7 May 2010 at 14:28

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 · 7 May 2010 at 17:04

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.

unknownsock · 8 May 2010 at 12:38

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?

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..

unknownsock · 9 May 2010 at 01:22

Well its all down to stupidity really, my mate was round the night before...and he a ****.
I'm surprised i havn't been banned from the internet with the crap hes done on here :rolleyes:

Although its all good! Found the program Active Undelete, which is the only program out of god knows how many that would detect my raid 0 array. Quick scan and recovered my whole drive to my secondary one.
I tried through dos and linux but no luck, can't say thats my area of speciality.

What software do you recommend? I normally use spyware s&d with avg, although i cant stand the new avg versions. And i have no patience for a firewall..