Re: Windows xp home

From: Dan (spamyou_at_user.nec)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:20:52 -0700

Thanks for sharing your experience with us David. I appreciate the
information. Have a great day!

"Creative Design and Computers"
<CreativeDesignandComputers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F484A084-2776-42D3-8081-1A2512BB81E9@microsoft.com...
: O.K. guys, I have solved the issue myself. Apparently the customer had the
: bios anti-virus item unchecked in the bios so that the virus wrote a script
: into the bios preventing it from loading windows. Unfortunatly I had
: re-formated the drive to try to reload the system. I even in desperation
re,
: moved the partition and re-installed it to no avail. My last attempt at
: trying to repair this beast was to download a flash for the bios, "(which i
: do not recommend to anyone who does not have extensive experience)" and
after
: flashing it, the system loaded right up without any problems. Please share
: this with anyone who has this problem in the future as this particular
virus
: is deadly.
: Dave Giles
:
: "Creative Design and Computers" wrote:
:
: > A customers system has xp home and acquired the hacktool.rootkit virus.
I
: > installed her drive on a working system and removed the virus and
infected
: > files. Putting the drive back in her tower and trying to access windows,
it
: > will only go to the black screen right before entering windows where the
: > curser appears and it just will not go any further. I tried switching
the
: > hard drive with a windows 98 system on it and it loads just fine. I
tried
: > reinstalling xp but it only goes to the blamk screen and hangs just as it
did
: > with the old operating system. Is it possible that the virus changed the
: > cmos of the motherboard or something else. Possibly the master boot
record
: > was changed or ?????????.
: > I sure could use some ideas as I am baffled with this one.
: > Dave Giles

Relevant Pages

  • Re: ipvnmon.sys PLEASE HELP!!! I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT
    ... Once I got into my BIOS I reset everything back to the ... celeron which had windows xp loaded on top of it a week before the ... going to put the operating system that originally came with the system ... >>kind of virus might have corrupted the hard drive but I am not sure. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Booting of PC and Viewing the POST
    ... is completely irrelevant to how the BIOS ... It's definitely not true that all computers use ... although Delete in particular is very common. ... How to get into your BIOS depends, not on Windows, but on what ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
  • Re: virus? hacked?
    ... > Well, if you're concerned it might be a virus, run a virus scan after COLD ... > four computers downloaded a faulty antivirus update at the same time, ... the hardware configuration in windows was changed. ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: Shut down in 1 minute
    ... >>Fasser Virus, but haven't been able to find any info on ... Install an antivirus program and keep it updated.* Install a firewall. ... Go to Windows Update and apply all security patches for your ... Elephant Boy Computers ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • RE: Windows xp home
    ... bios anti-virus item unchecked in the bios so that the virus wrote a script ... this with anyone who has this problem in the future as this particular virus ... Putting the drive back in her tower and trying to access windows, ... > Dave Giles ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Quantcast