Goddamn It! FRIED My Computer. All My Music, Recordings, POOF. FUCK VIRUSES[views:12557][posts:79]______________________________________ [Apr 10,2011 4:30pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] I don't know how to use combofix |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 10,2011 4:31pm - the_reverend ""] look up WHS, its just back ups to the sever. And xp does have built in syncing called synctoys that is part of powertoys. It sucks though. Beyond compare 3 is the best syncing program out there. |
| _______________________________________________ [Apr 10,2011 7:08pm - IllinoisEnemaBradness ""] combofix runs itself. You do have to turn off any antivirus. Admin tools>services>stop AV service |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 10,2011 7:32pm - conservationist ""] IllinoisEnemaBradness said:Get Microsoft Security Essentials for real time safety, run SuperAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes once a week and you'll be ok. This is excellent advice. Also, if you are prone to getting drunk and surfing anal midget porn sites (I KNOW I DO), go ahead and install that virtual machine with firefox. Make a nice fat icon on your desktop with some titties on it so you run that when you're drunk, and wake up in the morning to find your virtual machine full of viruses instead of your actual Windows install. Bonus points for pr0nsurfing through linux. Makes you look like a badass. |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 10,2011 7:35pm - Randy_Marsh ""] do VMs use the same device drivers as the OS outside the VM? |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 10,2011 8:26pm - the_reverend ""] combofix ftw. BTW: check out WHS, it rules and you can use it for a media server for your xbox or ps3. bennyhillifier |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 11,2011 12:28am - ArrowHeadNLI ""] I think I might just go to BB tomorrow and buy a portable HD, drag my entire C drive onto it, and reformat and do a fresh install. Literally spent all day just trying to get TWO programs up and running, but this computer hasn't been cleaned or reinstalled for like 5 years. There's just too much crap. |
| _______________________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 9:24pm - IllinoisEnemaBradness ""] update? Hope it's going well |
| _________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 9:28pm - reimroc ""] bitdefender kapersky eset are the only good home use security software. stay far away from anything norton, windows or AVG puts out. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 9:30pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] The Bamital virus spanked me. I reinstalled windows, saved my stuff, killed the virus and all the other crap it had brought onboard. Backed up my data, and reinstalled a clean windows. I'm still in the process of reinstalling everything. That virus was AWFUL |
| _________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 9:35pm - reimroc ""] protip: only download shit from trusted sources protip: the moment you even think you've been infected run msconfig and check the startup tab protip: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php |
| _________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 10:07pm - xmikex ""] reimroc said: protip: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php Keeping this in mind for my shitty work computer. The guy I inherited it from was a notorious office porn fiend. It runs like a 92 Ford Tempo. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 10:12pm - the_reverend ""] combofix would deal with bamital trojan. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 10:44pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] You guys really haven't followed this well. Virus is EASY. Missing SYSTEM FILES tends to make things harder. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 10:56pm - the_reverend ""] you really haven't followed, combofix works off a windows restore partition. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 13,2011 10:58pm - the_reverend ""] reimroc said:bitdefender kapersky eset are the only good home use security software. stay far away from anything norton, windows or AVG puts out.try Sophos with policy based controls. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 10:14am - Randy_Marsh ""] its really pretty simple: don't jack up your PC. I have not had a single virus on any of my PCs in almost 8-9 years. do a ritual...pay the price for the ritual. |
| _______________________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 5:42pm - IllinoisEnemaBradness ""] reimroc said:bitdefender kapersky eset are the only good home use security software. stay far away from anything norton, windows or AVG puts out. I tried Eset, not impressed at all. It found no infections after scanning for 45 minutes, Microsoft SE then found 2 potential threats, although that took 2 hours to scan. Antivirus is really just an opinion MAN, none of them are 100% nor will they ever be. |
| __________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 6:21pm - pam nli ""] Randy_Marsh said:its really pretty simple: don't jack up your PC. I have not had a single virus on any of my PCs in almost 8-9 years. do a ritual...pay the price for the ritual. I've never had a virus either and I never used anti-virus until some asshole on this board made a good case for AVG. So when my laptop died four days ago I thought I finally got a virus...I couldn't get the OS to boot, no safe mode, nothing. My friend took it and swore at it for a couple of days...then he saw AVG in my start up and deleted it. Computer: fixed. I didn't lose anything. Fortunately I back up so I wouldn't have lost much but the week of work I didn't back up would have sucked to re-do. |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 6:27pm - arktouros ""] AVG used to be the only decent free antivirus around, now I don't know what the hell it is. It's simple, if you run Windows, just use this, it's free, not invasive, not bloatware, and they kind of know what they're doing. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 7:49pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] arktouros said:AVG used to be the only decent free antivirus around, now I don't know what the hell it is. It's simple, if you run Windows, just use this, it's free, not invasive, not bloatware, and they kind of know what they're doing. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials This, essentially. AVG was great. Now, I'm done with it. Running Security Essentials, Malwarebytes, making a good boot disk, better file organization, and making regular backups from now on. Next time this happens, I just wanna re-format, reinstall, and be done with it. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 7:56pm - the_reverend ""] Again, WHS. If any of my windows machines ge hit,I would lose at most one day and if I don't know when it happened, I have roll back to any back up going back months. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 8:07pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] How much storage do you need for that? The files I backup currently take up about 5-600 gig, and I only have the 750 gig backup drive. So I think I could only really keep one backup of my whole system. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 9:27pm - the_reverend ""] You didn't watch my video. I have back ups of 2 computers going back to 10/2009. One computer has 128GB+1TB. The other computer has 500gb always full. All of my back ups back to 10/2009 are 1.75TB total |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 10:18pm - Conservationist ""] Randy_Marsh said:its really pretty simple: don't jack up your PC. I have not had a single virus on any of my PCs in almost 8-9 years. do a ritual...pay the price for the ritual. Run Firefox, don't install Flash. Don't log in as root user to browse the intertards. Do not go to Russian porn sites. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 10:44pm - the_reverend ""] Just surf on a vm. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 14,2011 10:45pm - the_reverend ""] Actually 99% of my viruses are from me going to sites for snippets of java code. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 15,2011 12:55am - Randy_Marsh ""] Conservationist said: Randy_Marsh said:its really pretty simple: don't jack up your PC. I have not had a single virus on any of my PCs in almost 8-9 years. do a ritual...pay the price for the ritual. Run Firefox, don't install Flash. explain. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 15,2011 12:08pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] OKAY, SO Still having a strange issue here. I'm losing bios settings. I changed the battery on my board for a fresh one, way back when all this started, because my date kept changing and I thought it was my battery. (if only, eh?) So every time I shut down and then start up again, my Bios settings keep changing. However, the bios time and date have not changed, so I'm pretty sure it's NOT the battery. My boot sequence keeps reverting back to #1=Floppy, even though I keep changing it to DVD player, and I keep disabling onboard sound, and it keeps reverting to enabled. Any ideas of where to start looking to fix this? |
| _______________________________________________ [Apr 16,2011 5:43pm - IllinoisEnemaBradness ""] update your chipset driver. flash your bios |