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Someone!! Help me!!
.. computer savvy peeps, crowd around!! ..
Replies: 12 — Last Post Aug. 14, 2004 6:00pm by Toxic Hauteur
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Okay, so I know I could e-mail HP support, or wade through the tons of partially helpful computer forums, but I thought I'd give a crack at livewire first, considering I know there have got to be some people in the know here.


Okay, so somehow (don't ask me how, I NEVER get viruses) I suddenly got this virus (don't know what it's called, I can't keep my computer on long enough to find out) after not using my laptop for two months.

I can turn my computer on, but when it gets to the desktop it shuts itself down after about 20-30 sec. I can only get stuff off of it (docs etc) when in safemode.

I tried to use my restore CDs, but those wont work (my computer is not recognizing my CD drive, apparently) and I can't do it the old-fashioned way (it's decided to ignore my C: drive as well .. but it recognizes the floppy)


Someone .. HELP ME!! All I really want to know is if anyone has experienced this or knows what may be wrong .. Its driving me NUTS..    

(Edited by Toxic Hauteur at 3:23 pm on Aug. 10, 2004)

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bradley007

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Looks like a reformat is in order for you.
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sexy dean

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Im really surprised that when you restore the computer back to factory settings it still wont work.. What OS are you using..
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Review:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

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Have you tried booting to safemode?

Anyway.
http://www.gotechforums.com/forums/cat.cgi?action=technical

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The problem is that I CAN'T restore it because my computer wont recognize my cd drive (so the cd wont start up) and I cant reformat it by format c:/ blahblah because it can't find C drive (though in safemode I can access the Cdrive fine.

OS Windows ME

I have booted in safemode to get all the docs and stuff that I need (because it will shut itself down in normal mode).

I'm looking at the links now.

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Anyway.
http://www.gotechforums.com/forums/cat.cgi?action=technical

Hehe thanks   I looked for a tech board on the teen forum, but couldn't find it .. heheh

Can a mod move it to its appropriate place?? :)

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I ended up running the free houscall scan over the internet. For some reason my desktop is now loading now .. It found TWENTY ONE infected files .. all in a C:/restoresomething-or-other..

Soo .. yeah ..       I still cant reformat/restore though.

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Hmm .. the topic that I created in the computer section has NO replies .. I think I'll stick with this one. Viruses:

revop.a
small.go
small.iq
revop.f
stilen.a
agent.ae
scthought.l
alchemic.a
psyme.b

Hellllp..


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that, sir, is the sasser virus.  I caught it too and had to reformat my hard drive because you can't make a boot disk in the NTFS format  :(



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Hmmm. If it is sasser, read though this first, before reformatting.

EDIT: If you already have your docs, it might just be easier to reformat. If your feeling brave, try linux.

(Edited by squirellplayingtag at 4:38 pm on Aug. 12, 2004)

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Quote: from Toxic Hauteur at 11:11 am on Aug. 12, 2004
Hmm .. the topic that I created in the computer section has NO replies .. I think I'll stick with this one. Viruses:

revop.a
small.go
small.iq
revop.f
stilen.a
agent.ae
scthought.l
alchemic.a
psyme.b

Hellllp..


Are they all deleted/repaired?

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Nope - I have to go (I guess) and find a removal thing for each individual virus or something, but I haven't had the time to sit down and do that :(

<<Edit: Thank you, squirrel, I'll take a read through that when I have some time>>

(Edited by Toxic Hauteur at 6:01 pm on Aug. 14, 2004)

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