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Hyperion*1400

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Sorry I have been gone for the past few days. I caught this lovely lady:

http://www.dailytech.com/New+Rampan...llion+Business+PCs+in+a+Week/article13981.htm

Normally, my down time would only be around 6 hours... but it has been compounded by these guys:

http://www.asplundh.com/

The State hires them to keep the right-of-ways clear, and every hour or so they knock out the power..... ALWAYS when I am in the middle of installing drivers. So then that corrupts my HAL and I have to re-install... again. But, now they have left me at peace, so maybe I can get some work done. I'll report back with any updates.
 
Glad to hear from you. :) Hope you're back up and running soon.
 
I know the feeling man. There's one going around my high school. It disguises itself as anyvirus software, and brings some mal-ware with it. It has taken out sixteen computers on our network (don't ask me how big it is). So look out for it.

A friendly warning from your friendly neighborhood Featherfoot07
 
Caught? Pokemon style?
In these cases I would just wipe my drive... or buy a new one... Im too lazy to deal with scans. would rather delete my harddrive and move on (its actually an excuse to delete WoW, shhhh)
 
You don't need to do all of that, most of this stuff is dependent on drivers and system32 services. A fresh install of Windows renders them useless as system32 gets scrubbed clean. What is taking so long now is that I am trying to restore all of my settings from the previous install... and I have never done this before. Usually I just re-install the OS and my software separately.
 
I got something like that, at least six different strains of mal-ware, probably one allowed the others to get loaded. I used Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Install that in safe mode and run a full scan, remove, reboot into safe mode again, and repeat until it finds to more mal-ware. Unfortunately it takes at least an hour to do a full scan. Or format and reinstall. I'm not sure which is worse. I occasionally update and at least do a quick scan. I also switched to Avast antivirus which seems to be doing the job.
 
Well I have just about got my computer back online. Apparently I had an epic death virus that would carry over to each new Windows install. Kaspersky took care of that real quick!

But, looks like I am not out of the woods yet. I decent sized family emergency has come up and will likely sap a fair amount of my free time. I would prefer not to go into, and I hope that everyone is understanding of my situation.

I'll keep you guys up to date.
 
Hyperion*1400 said:
Sorry I have been gone for the past few days. I caught this lovely lady:

http://www.dailytech.com/New+Rampan...llion+Business+PCs+in+a+Week/article13981.htm

Normally, my down time would only be around 6 hours... but it has been compounded by these guys:

http://www.asplundh.com/

The State hires them to keep the right-of-ways clear, and every hour or so they knock out the power..... ALWAYS when I am in the middle of installing drivers. So then that corrupts my HAL and I have to re-install... again. But, now they have left me at peace, so maybe I can get some work done. I'll report back with any updates.
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LOL omg at first i was like.. he was fishing? and then i was like OMG EWWW HE HAD WORMS! and then i actually read it.. and was like ohhhhhhh!

AHAHAHAHHA ya ya im on my 3rd cup of coffee :P
 
Well I think I have finally gotten that virus off of my system...*knocks on wood*

After about 5 days of unplugging hard drives and 24 hour long scan plus another XP re-install, I have finally scrubbed my PC clean. Oh, be on the look out for this guy:

http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=186375095

It copies itself to EVERY .exe on your computer. Thank god for Kaspersky. From what I have been reading, it is one of the only AV programs that can pick up on and disinfect the virus.

On a related note, don't visit megagames any time soon ;)
 
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