A virus has just possibly killed my laptop.

[JohnH]

...with none of the drawbacks (cost and the image of being a late swilling, asymmetricaly haircutted McJunkie)

:shock: Fixies, reading that made me spit my herbal tea all over my Toyota Prius!

 

[highlandsflyer]

Put the drive into another machine find your docs and settings and back them up.



Try doing a combofix on the slave drive if it's XP and then put it back in the old machine, if it's Vista give up and put Win 7 on there.

Noting something of a dislike for Vista?

 

[IDB1]

Vista is atrocious... imho.. really like 7 (only have brief experience of both, but would upgrade to 7 if I wanted to part with some $ on an OS)

Need to investigate MSE though.. despite running Windoze (mainly because I cba to deal with an alternative), I distrust microsoft somewhat..

 

[drcarlos]

You may be able to boot into recovery mode if you press F12 at boot as it may be built into the BIOS.
This will wipe the whole machine though so make sure you have removed the drive and copied your docs to another disc.
If you have recovery CD's you may need to make a bootable USB key from these to enter recovery mode.

To be honest I have never seen (in 15 years as an IT Pro) any virus do so much damage so quickly usually these websites just install some malware or a Trojan or two that you have to remove.

Carl.

 

[cyfa2809]

To be honest I have never seen (in 15 years as an IT Pro) any virus do so much damage so quickly usually these websites just install some malware or a Trojan or two that you have to remove.

Carl.

yeah there is this one which is pretty savage
when i had it it literally took over bar the bios boot screen
had to reformat 9didnt fully kill it, just the interface/os)
and it kept directing me to buy security software after detecting thousands of reg errors
something like £70

i recall it putting a red desktop backround on with a biohazard like symbol in the centre

 

[GT-Steve]

To be honest I have never seen (in 15 years as an IT Pro) any virus do so much damage so quickly usually these websites just install some malware or a Trojan or two that you have to remove.

Carl.

yeah there is this one which is pretty savage
when i had it it literally took over bar the bios boot screen
had to reformat 9didnt fully kill it, just the interface/os)
and it kept directing me to buy security software after detecting thousands of reg errors
something like £70

i recall it putting a red desktop backround on with a biohazard like symbol in the centre

Yep that's the one.

Dropped it off at my local technowizards and he said there's about a dozen people been infected in our town over the weekend, so he's doing alright for himself at the moment...

 

[cyfa2809]

thats strange
did it come from your gumtree or something?
mine was pretty instant (think it came from a link on a torrent site or similar)
so there must be a common factor?

 

[GT-Steve]

thats strange
did it come from your gumtree or something?
mine was pretty instant (think it came from a link on a torrent site or similar)
so there must be a common factor?

I was in here when the balloon flashed up.... :shock: :shock:

Cant remember if I was looking at a gumtree link at the time or not...

 

[legrandefromage]

Google's Chrome has been warning me of issues whilst looking on ebay and autotrader.

Seem to have got of lightly as the last one killed my hard drive.

I salvaged that by installing Linux via a cd rom and accessing my files from there.

 

[drcarlos]

Just had a look at the Mcafee threat centre and they aren't listing any threats over low risk (fakeAV is listed there as low risk).
I would imagine that this had been lurking for sometime and had created a backdoor in for another payload which sounds like it has overwritten the MBR on the drive or something.

Carl.