Hey folks,
Sooo I logged onto my computer yesterday and found there was a ridiculous program called Personal-Guard-2009 that I didn't install. Odd, since I have so much security running... only to find someone or something had disabled my firewall. So I run some virus scans, sweet, it's not going away, uninstall, not working, oh hey there's a guide online that tells me how to manually delete the program, BALETED... eh? What's this? It's opened a doorway to about a dozen trojans wanting to eat mah poor PC? OH SNAP-- yeah I'm boned.
So yeah, I went to restart my computer after I desperately tried to install Trend Micro's antivirus program - which, mind you, was almost impossible to get -- I couldn't access most sites I logged onto because these trojans automatically redirected me to faulty, fraudulent websites advertising SUPER AWESOME PROGRAMS that I didn't want/need. Anyways, so the darn thang won't even restart, so I had to press the POWER BUTTON OF DOOOOOM and.. oh cool I can't start up my PC, it immediately BSODs past bootup.
My brother and I both worked our voodoo PC magic, from safe mode (bluescreen), even tried a reset to factory defaults (bluescreen) and booting with the OS reinstall discs in my disc drive (bluescreen), to no avail (BLUESCREEEEEEEEEN!?).
All I can think of that I physically downloaded in the past few MONTHS that could have been viral are some CS:Source skins on FPSBanana that my computer warned me about (and I ignored like a GENIUS - go me!), otherwise it's a brand new computer (~2 years old) that I absolutely strive to keep clean -- otherwise my dad would be super-ticked as he spent almost a thousand dollars on my custom Dell. And yes, I know, OH GOD DELL WRY but I didn't have a choice in it, or I'd have built it myself. ;(
I was thinking maybe I have bad memory stick(s) and/or maybe the Trojans nuked my harddrive. Any chance of a fix?
If you need more info, please let me know!
Specs:
Standard Dell XPS 300(?) mobo
3GB Corsair DDR2
Core 2 Duo E6600
9800GT
XP 32-bit Media Center
Sooo I logged onto my computer yesterday and found there was a ridiculous program called Personal-Guard-2009 that I didn't install. Odd, since I have so much security running... only to find someone or something had disabled my firewall. So I run some virus scans, sweet, it's not going away, uninstall, not working, oh hey there's a guide online that tells me how to manually delete the program, BALETED... eh? What's this? It's opened a doorway to about a dozen trojans wanting to eat mah poor PC? OH SNAP-- yeah I'm boned.
So yeah, I went to restart my computer after I desperately tried to install Trend Micro's antivirus program - which, mind you, was almost impossible to get -- I couldn't access most sites I logged onto because these trojans automatically redirected me to faulty, fraudulent websites advertising SUPER AWESOME PROGRAMS that I didn't want/need. Anyways, so the darn thang won't even restart, so I had to press the POWER BUTTON OF DOOOOOM and.. oh cool I can't start up my PC, it immediately BSODs past bootup.
My brother and I both worked our voodoo PC magic, from safe mode (bluescreen), even tried a reset to factory defaults (bluescreen) and booting with the OS reinstall discs in my disc drive (bluescreen), to no avail (BLUESCREEEEEEEEEN!?).
All I can think of that I physically downloaded in the past few MONTHS that could have been viral are some CS:Source skins on FPSBanana that my computer warned me about (and I ignored like a GENIUS - go me!), otherwise it's a brand new computer (~2 years old) that I absolutely strive to keep clean -- otherwise my dad would be super-ticked as he spent almost a thousand dollars on my custom Dell. And yes, I know, OH GOD DELL WRY but I didn't have a choice in it, or I'd have built it myself. ;(
I was thinking maybe I have bad memory stick(s) and/or maybe the Trojans nuked my harddrive. Any chance of a fix?
If you need more info, please let me know!
Specs:
Standard Dell XPS 300(?) mobo
3GB Corsair DDR2
Core 2 Duo E6600
9800GT
XP 32-bit Media Center
.
