TheLastColdBeer Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4673 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5862 Achievement Points: 41100 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 11:41 AM Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted December 6, 2014 Had some time this morning (on a Saturday) to play, so I loaded WAW. Locked up on the "waiting for players" screen, gave up, & re-booted. Had to restart again, and WinDoze said it would repair the errors. Fine, let it run two hours, activity light on the ide side had long since quit flashing, but the Win repair wouldn't let me exit. WTF......Win7Pro32 disk would just say "windows is starting" and die. Loaded Win onto another hard drive, loaded & updated fine. Plugged my other drive in, and it won't even allow booting, let alone trying to read. PartedMagic won't load KDE, only the bash# shell, and complains about an error sum, with an I/O error. Did a boot sector virus get by Avast? Any chance of recovery, or should I just give up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BlAcKsMoKe Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 5459 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 494 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 441 Achievement Points: 3501 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 18, 2022 Birthday: 10/03/1994 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Well there are always virusses passing through any anti virus software (I'm not a big fan of avast because it seems to let more through you should try microsoft security essentials) So you have two hard drives one with the old windows instaltion and one with a clean on right? and when you connect the old one it wont boot? If so your hard drive is fried and you can most likely throw it out.. Or am I reading it wrong? If so please tell me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaderXI Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 10:54 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2014 (edited) Have you pull some ram out then try.....is it booting past the ram ? I have ran AVG free version for years and never had a problem Edited December 6, 2014 by loaderXI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4673 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5862 Achievement Points: 41100 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 11:41 AM Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 Yeah, boots past the ram. Put the old drive back in alone, and it comes up with BOOT DISK FAILURE operating system not found. I think that drive is kaput. Too bad, so sad......And I really wanted to do some Loader killing today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BlAcKsMoKe Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 5459 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 494 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 441 Achievement Points: 3501 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 18, 2022 Birthday: 10/03/1994 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Have you pull some ram out then try.....is it booting past the ram ? I have ran AVG free version for years and never had a problem AVG is pretty good though but you should run MalwareBytes to make sure nothing got past it.. its a really good program that finds not only malware but also privacy leaking files and stuff I deffintly recommend everyone running it at least twice a year on any system loaderXI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbart Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.11 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted December 6, 2014 If you can get to the bios check to see if the correct drive is in the boot position...I have had simular problem in the past and that was the problem... KaptCrunch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4673 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5862 Achievement Points: 41100 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 11:41 AM Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 Yep Bart, boot order was correct. Drive is cooked. Ten year old Maxtor, can't complain too much. I like MalwareBytes BlackSmoke, I run it once in awhile along with Hijack this! to see if anything slipped by. I ran AVG for years, but tried Avast, and like it (for the price). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BlAcKsMoKe Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 5459 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 494 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 441 Achievement Points: 3501 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 18, 2022 Birthday: 10/03/1994 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Nice Well I can recommend using microsoft security essentials its free and runs silently its the best free one out there its recommended by most professionals actually JohnnyDos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaderXI Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 10:54 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2014 AVG is pretty good though but you should run MalwareBytes to make sure nothing got past it.. its a really good program that finds not only malware but also privacy leaking files and stuff I deffintly recommend everyone running it at least twice a year on any system Yes I run Malware as well AVG MALWAREBYTES C CLEANER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 10:54 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2014 Yep Bart, boot order was correct. Drive is cooked. Ten year old Maxtor, can't complain too much. I like MalwareBytes BlackSmoke, I run it once in awhile along with Hijack this! to see if anything slipped by. I ran AVG for years, but tried Avast, and like it (for the price). Welp sounds like its time to install a new drive then slave the old one that way your games are still there you just have to change the path....Thats what I did the last time and will be doing again once this new rig is together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 296 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4479 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3643 Achievement Points: 36581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 40 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2014 win Essentials isn't automatic you have to manually update scripts weekly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BlAcKsMoKe Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 5459 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 494 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 441 Achievement Points: 3501 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 18, 2022 Birthday: 10/03/1994 Share Posted December 6, 2014 win Essentials isn't automatic you have to manually update scripts weekly Hmm fair enough it pops up and you have to click once so still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labob Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8278 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5995 Achievement Points: 53708 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2014 win Essentials isn't automatic you have to manually update scripts weekly It is and you should be worried about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blaze Posted December 6, 2014 Member ID: 2702 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1057 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 918 Achievement Points: 8385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/27/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 11/26/1978 Device: Android Share Posted December 6, 2014 I run Avast and have had a couple slip through, but I check it manually quite regularly. Think I'll give security essentials a go now though. Avast. CCleaner. Super Antispyware. Revo uninstaller. I tend to use Firefox as my browser with Flash blocker and ad block plus. Stops most of the hidden clickables and unwanted pop up shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 7, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted December 7, 2014 I have Sophos UTM (unified Threat Management) server as my router/firewall. It's pretty effective for blocking malware scripts from websites, infected files, infected email etc. They also have a free virus removal tool that's worth running as well. http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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