Re: Missing user in windows explorer. Virus?

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:35:20 -0300, "John John (MVP)"
<audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is this a new thread that you started? Weren't you asking about this
somewhere else in these groups?

BH: Yes John, this is a new thread and I have asked in this group and
in alt.comp.virus on 06-17, about the misreported processor. My
question here is really about the missing user in Explorer. I'm also
wondering if there is a connection between the two problems.


Are you saying that you see the incorrect processor information when the
computer is doing its POST routine, that this is happening at the first
screen that you see when the computer is booting?

BH: It's actually the second screen, the first, which is very quick,
is the Gforce Winfast video card screen. I've tried to pause these
screens without success, although I can pause the subsequent screens.

If that is the case
this is not a Windows problem at all nor is it a boot sector problem.

BH: I'm apparently using the wrong terminology here. I should have
said BIOS instead of boot sector, if I understand you correctly.

At that early stage in the computer boot process the hard disk to be
booted has not yet been polled and the boot process is still firmly in
the hands of the BIOS, it cannot be a boot sector problem and I doubt
that this is a virus, it could be but I think it's unlikely to be a CMOS
(BIOS) virus, these things are usually much more destructive than that.

BH: The thing that puzzles me most is why would the BIOS only show the
processor misreporting on the first restart, and not on subsequent
ones? The BIOS info should only have one version, not two. Any
suggestion on how to check the BIOS for a virus?

The reason I mentioned all this processor misreporting is as
background for my question about the missing user in Explorer. Do you
have any thoughts on that?


If this is indeed happening at this early stage in the boot process go
in the BIOS and take a look at the processor information.

BH: I'll do that right now.

Maybe the
BIOS settings have been changed, perhaps you could set them to default
values again. Also, a PIII 667 is a rather old processor and it's
probably on an old motherboard, lets face it this processor/motherboard
must be near 8 to 10 years old, don't discard the possibility of
hardware failure.

BH: I'm going to open the box right now, and see if I can get the fan
on the video card working.
Thanks for your help, John.
BlackHawk




John

BlackHawk 96 wrote:

Hi all.
I think I've got a virus in my boot sector as on startup screen just
before the system health is reported and ram is checked the processor
is reported as: "@entyem III 66' MHj" instead of "Pentium III 667
MHz". This error only occurs on reboot after my puter has crashed.
When I do not enter my password, but reboot instead, the processor
description error no longer appears. Sooo, shutting the barn door
after the horse has escaped, I made that user account (Mike) limited,
which caused my printer to stop working for the Mike user for some
reason. So I went to an administrator account (Bill) and tried to get
the file I wanted to print through windows explorer, but the Mike user
was NOT SHOWN! I have "Show All Files" checked. The Mike user is the
only one, out of 6, that does not appear.

Can it be that the boot virus is hiding in the Mike user?; and that is
why that account cannot be accessed? If I can't see the Mike user,
perhaps my Avast virus scanner cannot see it either.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, BlackHawk

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