I think I've gotta virus, any help?

[Blade_Train3r]

Re: I think I've gotta virus, any help?

Well honestly, this may be the "shotgun" approach, but to me it seems to simply be a matter of backing your data up to a spare hard drive (if you have one, but they're cheap anyways) via the recovery console, running CHKDSK, then reinstall Windows. If you get the same BSOD after the reinstall, then it probably is a badly corrupt sector near the beginning of the hard drive (or the section/partition where Windows is installed). If not, it probably was a virus. In which case, don't move or use your data from the external yet, scan it first and quarantine the infected files.

The only problem with this is the re-installation of any programs installed before you formatted, but as long as you have the data and all the necessary information for Direct2Drive/Steam/etc installs then it entails at most an hour or two of effort (excluding the time to re-copy everything back from the external to your usual drive).

It's the least complex method I know of, and rates about 50% on the inconvenience scale. It's considerably simpler than fiddling around with formatting to FAT, installing Linux, and all that.

If you do get the BSOD afterward and it is a corrupt sector... swap out the external with the internal, install Windows, and voila.

As for Linux, the only reason I don't support t is due to it's lack of game developer support, I am a gamer first and foremost, after all.

Look on the bright side, at least your PSU didn't burst into flames like one of my friend's did

[Tps222]

Re: I think I've gotta virus, any help?

Your best bet would to be to just buy a new hard drive. Foil and Shin are right, you probably have a corrupt sector.

I mean, sure you could reformat and see how it runs, but there's a good chance it won't be reliable at all and will just crash again. Then again, I can't tell how deep the registry corruption went.

Seeing as it is a laptop, you don't really have the option to run it as a slave drive in another computer and see if you can recover it that way. Data recovery from professionals is ridiculously expensive anyways.

Sorry dude.

[tofurox]

Re: I think I've gotta virus, any help?

sucks...

[fido123]

Re: I think I've gotta virus, any help?

THIS JUST HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND THIS WEEK

What you should do is try to boot up any type of OS from disc. If you don't now any go here and download it. When you have the disc put it in and change your BIOS to start up from disc. If you don't know how to do this when you start your computer press your BIOS key which is a function ('F') key. If you don't know it, mash em. All BIOS are different but it's usually pretty easy to figure out, just have "Start from Disc" boot priority #1.

If you can't access your BIOS page or start this operating system you have a hardware problem or somebody deleted data on your motherboard. If the OS does start up your in luck, you just simply need to install windows. The problem is probably because a hacker or virus deleted your system32 folder. Boot from disc but this time use your Windows OS instillation disc and attempt to repair your current version of Windows, if this does not work reformat.

Also internetisseriousbusiness.com did not give you that virus. When I first went on it I thought it was shifty so I checked the source and as far as I can see there was no virus, if so, I broke so many computers >_<.