What's the latest in people's lives?

[Mark]

You know, over here n' over there
Hey can you guys log on to skype?

Lol...only if your camera works

Just kidding. I'll be on later tonight, after my NA meeting 8)

[Sonic Glitch]

Well, I am watching PBS Masterpiece Mystery's Sherlock Holmes reboot. It's Sherlock Holmes in the 21st century. Faithful to the spirit of the stories, but changed to fit the times. I gotta say, it's incredible. If you haven't seen it, Here is the link to the video of the 1st episode.

{Edit} As I discover it's a BBC program (which I should've guessed). Any of our friends in the Isles see it?

[SolkaTruesilver]

Um... What do you mean you aren't sure you did it right?

Because I can't seem to be able to install Windows Live Messenger. It gives me an error message.

If you got rid of all the data theres no more virus, and what the hell were you doing that you downloaded a self-replicating virus that was impenetrable from all virus scanner?

Fishing for the Futurama movies, as the classic stream websites don't seem to work for me. On that side note: Bender's Big Score is a thousandfold better than The Simpsons movie!

And how the hell did it take 3 hours to format any drive, it's the same time for all sizes, all it does is resets the data tables so that nothing is indexed, it doesn't actually delete anything, just makes all the data unreadable by the usual methods.

I didn't do a quick format, I did a complete format since it was the 1st time I format the hard drive, I wanted to make sure there wasn't any damaged parts, after 2 moves, including an airplane trip.

I dunnow about "it all takes the same time". I can only tell the format of my 1 TB hard drive took me 3 hours.

[Nickswitz]

What error message comes up? It may be some dependency that's not installed, or possibly a problem with Windows itself. And what kind of virus software do you have? And if you had some why did you not scan them before playing them and essentially quarantee them from contacting the base file-system.

[SolkaTruesilver]

What error message comes up? It may be some dependency that's not installed, or possibly a problem with Windows itself. And what kind of virus software do you have? And if you had some why did you not scan them before playing them and essentially quarantee them from contacting the base file-system.

I got infected while visiting a website. I think my IE browser was open to security leaks. I am using Firefox now.

The error message? I will try again tonight and copy it.

I was using AVG, and the first alert was that AVG found that 5 of my .exe were infected. And then it spread to 8. And then to 12... The next thing I knew, my computer was running extremely slow, I couldn't shut down windows 'cause a weird .exe couldn't shut down, and all of my google search were redirected to publicty websites.

[thelordharry]

If you can get there:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Download the free version. Try and install it and update the definitions but if you can just install it and run a full scan. Try safe mode if that fails. Failing that, you backed up your system, didn't you?

[SolkaTruesilver]

I already did. For some reason, Malewarebyte would give me an error message when I tried to update it. And the nonupdated version wouldn't detect anything wrong.

I tried re-install it, but it still wouldn't update.

[thelordharry]

Try a manual def update?

http://malwarebytes.gt500.org/

[SolkaTruesilver]

Darn. I tried to access my computer yesterday evening, and it seems to crash to hell whenever I try to do something with it, and just get to run into some weird loop.

I load Windows = a-ok.

But then..

- Try to open Firefox = gets into an infinite loop
- Try to open the Start Menu = gets into an infinite loop
- Try to open Avista user interface = gets into an infinite loop

Task Manager seems okay, however, and even in the infinite loop, I can still interface with it (but I can't seem to be able to open it DURING the loop). However, I can't shut down, let's say, Firefox, even using the processes.

The darnest thing is, 2 days ago, the computer was working fine. I ran Dawn of War 2 for hours on it, and went to multiple websites. When shutting down windows, there was some updates waiting for me. I did the classic Run Updates/Shut Down, and.. I am in my current predicament.

[thelordharry]

Yeah, that sounds screwed to me!

You've really only got two courses of action. Blat the hard-drive and reload the OS and start from scratch (solves the problem/is a lot of work) or if you have access to another computer with internet access, try and download some sort of free boot time AV scan or maybe try and run a scan in safe mode.

You have my sympathies though!!!

[SolkaTruesilver]

Yeah, that sounds screwed to me!

You've really only got two courses of action. Blat the hard-drive and reload the OS and start from scratch (solves the problem/is a lot of work) or if you have access to another computer with internet access, try and download some sort of free boot time AV scan or maybe try and run a scan in safe mode.

You have my sympathies though!!!

But... but... I just formatted the hard drive... That's the reason it's bugging now!

[stitch626]

This is what you do. You disconnect the hard drive. Plug it into another computer (preferably using a SATA to USB type connector). Scan the drive with every anti-something available on the web. Start with Malwarebytes, then things like Avira and Comodo, and move on from there.

Each time you find (and kill) something, you reconnect to your main computer to see if its fixed.

And make sure you have the scan settings on the highest level, so it will get everything (doesn't matter if its a false alarm, delete it anyway, you can always reinstall Windows).

[thelordharry]

Yeah, that sounds screwed to me!

You've really only got two courses of action. Blat the hard-drive and reload the OS and start from scratch (solves the problem/is a lot of work) or if you have access to another computer with internet access, try and download some sort of free boot time AV scan or maybe try and run a scan in safe mode.

You have my sympathies though!!!

But... but... I just formatted the hard drive... That's the reason it's bugging now!

Sorry, came in half way through your thread. Didn't see that you'd already reloaded.

BTW...do you know what state your HDD is in? Can you get to the disk checker to run a scan?

[SolkaTruesilver]

BTW...do you know what state your HDD is in? Can you get to the disk checker to run a scan?

Good idea, if I could start up disk checker.

Do we know if the latest Windows Updates can interfere with some softwares? 'cause everythin was smooth until I put these updates.

also, can I ask you if some "optimisers" for the computers are really good, or they just eat up RAM ?

[Nickswitz]

Yeah, all they do is eat up RAM, the only true way to optimize things is manually.