Re: Got virus - now have to boot "last known good" every time
- From: Gene E. Bloch <letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:38:14 -0700
On 10/02/09, wyz posted:
I am new to this board, and am still trying to determine if it could be useful to help solve problems. Who normally offers solutions here?
Lurk and see if you like it. But you should still not insert your problem into another thread. In *any* newsgroup.
Start a thread of your own.
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
You should start a new thread on this, since it's a new problem of your own, not part of the original thread.
I have no expertise to help you on this problem.
On 10/01/09, wyz posted:Asking someone if they know how to turn off the computer is an insult if they had a serious virus or spyware infection and got rid of it! I am having the same issue, with last known good configuration, and imagine my disappointment when I read through this whole post hoping for a solution, only to find that it was bogged down with someone suggesting another way to turn off the computer.
The reason I cant boot up is because a driver error is giving me the blue screen, but it wont uninstall, and replacing a .sys file from the XP Pro CD didnt fix it either. It is the microsoft kernel dls syntehsizer in sounds and audio devices, and another category simply saying unknown, that keeps reappearing with yellow question mark after uninstall. This started happening only after I ran Ad-Aware in safe mode and rebooted. Before that I had run combo fix with another issue that resolved. Malware is what got rid of the vundo virus originally as I have since checked it with vundofix.exe and it came out clean. Do you have the solution so I dont have to run repair/reinstall? "Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
Here's what awabbit@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 8/15/09:On Aug 11, 11:19šam, Robert <Rob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Well. šI would think that all the technical details in my post would indicate I know how to turn off the computer. šYes, he posted something that was obvious to you, but many times posts
"Curious" wrote:How do you normally shutdown your computer? šIf you use the on/off switch then your system settings are not being saved on shutdown.Hello Robert: On these boards, we are all attempting to help one another. The suggestion that was made was in the positive spirit of these Boards.
"Robert" <Rob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:064B88C7-AD26-4E1C-B7B2-2D0B0E3C11D1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxš š When I turn on the computer it gets to the XP screen then freezes. I have to turn the computer on/off. The next round I get the option to go to safe mode, normal, or last known good configuration. Selecting last known works. When I shut down the computer I go through that again on bootup - again I have to power on/off and then select last good. So how do I make "last known" be the one it uses next time? I would think this would happen automatically. š š Yesterday I got the NASTY virus that I think a lot of people got just after
July 4th. I download ComboFix to fix it, which it mostly did - this bootup problem is left. šThe symptoms of the virus were it replaced my desktop background with a message in the middle saying I was infected and to download
something to fix it, my homepage was replaced with a message that my
current
security settings restricted the site (the correct URL was shown, and
other
pages worked), and a fake anti-virus program called MSA.exe was running.) It
also disabled opening the task manager and regedit.
What I've done:
š š sfc /scannow completed successfully (w/error for the 5 or so know
files
in the MS knowledgebase that aren't needed for Media Center, and errors for
missing Windows Media Player files - I hadn't reinstalled the player which I
uninstalled recently for a different reason - these files are listed in the
event viewer). There were, however, a couple of windows icons named file protection... at the bottom of the screen I couldn't maximize/open, and there
was the hourglass cursor while at the bottom of the screen. I had to
ctr-alt-del then stop explorer.exe and then start explorer again. That
cleared it up.
š šI have also ran AVG (which was installed and running at the time of the infection - so I replaced that with Antivir - which found many viruses (mostly webpage gen something) and a couple trojans than AVG missed.
that may seem obvious may just be the answer to solving the posted
problems.
He should be thanked, not cut down. My 2 1/2 cents. Aaron
My 2 cents too - Gino.
I am a very experienced programmer. On occasion when I have been unable to spot a problem I created, I would ask my cohort in the next cube to look at my code. You'd be amazed at how obvious - on a number of occasions - the error was that I couldn't find.
I was never insulted even it the obvious suggestion wasn't the solution, because I know how stupid I can be, at least for a short time :-)
Well, maybe not so much stupid as caught up in a cognitive loop.
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