Reply to: My pc is embuggered...

[Fred Bloggs]

At the risk of telling Granny how to suck eggs here, Avast! anti virus is free for personal use and I have yet to have a PC fall over in the last several years or so since using it. Recommended.

[Jog On]

You sem to have more than your fair share of serious virus problems z. Hmmmm, wonder why that is???

Yes what's with that?

Do share..

[zeitghost]

Is this your naughty PC again?

Nope.

It is the box in work...

The one that has the CA virus checker & pest control...

Naughty pc is blessed with kaspersky...

That finds things & stops other things from doing unfortunate things.

CA appears to do bugger all really.

I might add that I've never pointed it at anything naughty... but then again, that site that Cojak found did unfortunate things to it... which were cured for a while when the CA pest patrol thingie decided that it might work for a while.

[lilelvis2000]

James T. Kirk

[xoggoth]

You sem to have more than your fair share of serious virus problems z. Hmmmm, wonder why that is???

[TheFaQQer]

Is this your naughty PC again?

[zeitghost]

Thanks for all the help & suggestions chaps & chapesses...

The CA <spit> thingie is running, but I'm not convinced it's doing much.

Since it's the vac, there's a dearth of people around who actually know more about this stuff than the little I know...

[zeitghost]

I'm in the process of reinstalling drivers and stuff...

I'd forgotten what a joy a VIA chipset is...

[lilelvis2000]

Continued with the Win2k cd, it offered recovery & has successfully (so far) got me to a reasonably working system.

With all the drivers screwed.

I'm now attempting to run the CA <spit> virus & pest patrol thingy... assuming that it'll go this week.

Suggest you also download the Sasser removal stuff from Microsoft..Oh yeah..have a firewall running or download it from a uninfected PC. You'll have to run the fix with the PC disconnected from the internet or you're bound to get it again...and its fast! First time I connected my PC to the internet on dialup here-I got infected before the setup even finished!

That'll clear it out. I'm almost sure its Sasser.

[Ardesco]

You could always try:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

If you're scared of the penguin

[zeitghost]

Continued with the Win2k cd, it offered recovery & has successfully (so far) got me to a reasonably working system.

With all the drivers screwed.

I'm now attempting to run the CA <spit> virus & pest patrol thingy... assuming that it'll go this week.

[lilelvis2000]

If you continue with Win 2K install does it offer recovery option?

I have a feeling in my bones that its made it to your boot sector.

Hmm...Now if only there was a Linux Live CD distro that could read Windows partitions so you can overwrite the exe and dll...

[zeitghost]

Personally I blame CA "virus checker"... :

[lilelvis2000]

Can you not even get to the login screen and stop the shutdown cycle?
Not even with f8 an start at a command prompt?

Yikes. I think you might be finished there.

[daviejones]

Download the dll, boot up with Win PE or Barts CD and attach a USB drive, copy over the DLL. Job Done...