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November 11, 2010

How to erase this virus?

Filed under: Windows Disaster Recovery — wayne @ 6:17 am

Hi,
Yesterday a friend of mine came to my place to drop him some music files into his usb. But into his usb, there were some other files, that he wasn’t able to recognise himself!
My pc started lagging, and therefore I was forced to do a reset.
When it opened, I formatted the usb just to be sure that no virus is on it, and then disaster started.
First of all, the antivirus starts and closes immediately. I’ve runned trojan remover 3 times , removed what was found but nothing… The virus is still here… And what do I mean? Internet Explorer windows pop-up every once in a while getting me into strange chinese sites.
In addition I can’t download many things from rapidshare (… when I press download firefox closes)! WinRar opens whatever it wants!
I’ve runned Eset Online Virusscan, and it found 10 viruses. I’ve made even a system recovery, but still nothing..
I have 2 hdds, and therefore if I must format them, I will lose all the important personal files of my.
So what to do? Back the files and format the hdds? Try another magical antivirus? or just get my pc done in a technician and get me ripped off?
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http://proxyorg.cn/top-10-antivirus-bitdefender-mcafee-kaspersky-f-secure-symantec-norton-antivir-avg.html
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If its a anti virus protector the only way you can, or the only way I could get rid of it was downloading a free malware program, even though I had one on my computer already..

Hope this helps.
http://www.malwaree.org/?tid=meorg&gclid=CIH8utCAuZkCFQKJxgodZCp_6A

November 8, 2010

How to erase this virus?

Filed under: Windows Disaster Recovery — wayne @ 7:52 pm

Hi,
Yesterday a friend of mine came to my place to drop him some music files into his usb. But into his usb, there were some other files, that he wasn’t able to recognise himself!
My pc started lagging, and therefore I was forced to do a reset.
When it opened, I formatted the usb just to be sure that no virus is on it, and then disaster started.
First of all, the antivirus starts and closes immediately. I’ve runned trojan remover 3 times , removed what was found but nothing… The virus is still here… And what do I mean? Internet Explorer windows pop-up every once in a while getting me into strange chinese sites.
In addition I can’t download many things from rapidshare (… when I press download firefox closes)! WinRar opens whatever it wants!
I’ve runned Eset Online Virusscan, and it found 10 viruses. I’ve made even a system recovery, but still nothing..
I have 2 hdds, and therefore if I must format them, I will lose all the important personal files of my.
So what to do? Back the files and format the hdds? Try another magical antivirus? or just get my pc done in a technician and get me ripped off?
Thanks for the instant response. I’m currently running MalwareByte’s Anti-Malware and then I will use the other software you recommended. I was surprised to see that it was successfully installed as I thought there was some kind of banlist to the files used 😛

If you have to reformat you only have to do the hard drive with your OS on it. Viruses don’t attack data. I have two HDs and four partitions on my desktop: one for XP, one for Vista, one saved for Win7, and one for data. If/when I get malware that causes too much damage to repair I just reformat the infected partition and everything else is safe. But I still backup to another PC and DVDs frequently in case the second hd crashes.

October 29, 2010

gparted destroying my backup drive?

Filed under: Windows Disaster Recovery — wayne @ 12:49 pm

I’m ultimately about to ask about partition recovery but please read on for the specifics!

Well today has been a techno disaster

Windows went down so booted to an old 6.06 lts ubuntu live cd to fix the mess.

Decided to do a backup of my important files first so connected my 1TB drive with lots of important files…..but of course ubuntu couldn’t write to ntfs properly back then so hit a problem.

To solve it I fired up parted switched to my backup drive. Which had all the options grayed out as it was mounted.

No matter. Terminal > sudo umount /dev/sdb

….not found.

After a seconds thought I right clicked the desktop icon for the drive and chose eject. Then refreshed parted. Options ungrayed result.

Entered two changes: resize the original ntfs backup partition with all of my files on it to leave 7odd th at the end. And reformat that empty space with extra3.

Selected option to write changes to disk.

Task one started then suddenly ubuntu remounted the drive of its own accord before the first task had completed. I can only assume it has some misguided urge to mount external disks.

An error screen also popped up which I closed too quickly without reading it as I wrongly concluded it was the second new partition which had also been mounted.

Now gparted shows the disk as divided into two with both marked as of unknown filesystem. The second takes up no actual space but appears on the list. The first has maintained its boot flag.

Help how do I recover my backup partition??
Sorry for typos Android phone prediction run amoc

Parted = gparted

Th =gb
Sorry for typos Android phone prediction run amoc

Parted = gparted

Th =gb
Sorry for typos Android phone prediction run amoc

Parted = gparted

Th =gb

I once had a similar problem and TestDisk was able to recover the partition
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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