[dba-Tech] Infected Computer

Bill:

Hardware tests seem AOK. 

I booted up with the Ghost CD and am running the virus scan although it is
with the virus definitions that it came with which are going to be well out
of date.

I got one message so far - File or directory C:\$Mft is corrupt and
unreadable.  Please run the chkdsk utility.

I'll wait until the scan is done and then run chkdsk - I can get to a
command prompt through Ghost.

Regards,

Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
858-259-4334
www.e-z-mrp.com
www.bchacc.com
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:58 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Infected Computer

Hi Rocky,

The BSOD may have nothing to do with the virus BSOD are often caused by bad
memory, video cards etc.  If you have another computer, you could take the
hard drive out of the  bad PC and put it in the other PC as a secondary
drive, (Make sure you have a current Virus protection program in the second
PC.) Then you should be able to do a virus scan on drive D or what ever it
becomes. Or you could put the drive in a USB drive case and do the same
thing using a working PC or laptop if you have one.. When done scanning you
could try to recover some of your unbacked up files before placing the drive
back into the bad PC.

If the AV finds any viruses, malware or what ever be sure to write them down
so you can Google them and decide if that is what caused your problem and
sometimes even how to remove them.

HTH.


Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:23 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Infected Computer


Dear List:

I'm assuming it's infected with something that corrupted or hijacked the
Beep.sys file.  Got a couple warnings from Sygate that something was trying
to get to the internet, stopped that, rebooted and got the Blue Screen of
Death.

Rebooted pressing F8 to get some boot options but none work - neither Safe
Mode nor Last Known Good Configuration.

Tried booting from Norton Ghost and recovering from the last time I ran
Ghost - about 3 weeks ago, but no soap, appears to recover then BSD again.

Booted from the Windows Pro XP disk - gets just so far on reinstall and then
BSD again.

If I can get it booted up I might be able to scan and clean the problem.
But I'm not opposed to reformatting the HD.  Had it on the project list for
this machine anyway but would have probably backed up a few things first.
But I can't even run the recovery disk that came from Dell.

Any ideas?

MTIA

Rocky




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