Unclean, Unclean!

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Sounds like the Arnold Schwarzenegger Virus. It has terminated your PC. And if you remove it, it will be back.

You are probably right, say, he was here at the start of the Olympics!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Ron

Yes I did Prax, thanks so much. It was that program that exposed the extent of the problem.
I have AVG was going to be enough to protect my computer.

I was wrong.

I've had problems with AVG free on other PCs so I replaced them with Avast (free), but you need more than AVG. I have at least 2 spyware programs. Spybot S&D which also tries to protect your browser from online hacks, which is where most virus's come from nowadays. You go to a website and a script tries to download a dropper to your system, which in turn tries to download more bad stuff.

You want a good fire walls, a good uptodate virus scanner that is actively monitoring downloads and a couple spyware programs

At the first sign of trouble I run malwarebytes program, it is not a proactive protection (the free version), but it will zap most bad stuff.

One trick I learned is to have a second user account installed. Log into that instead of your normal account, and then run it.

Also it's often best to run it in safe mode, but I've never had to.

You can take that HD out and install it into another PC and then use that PC to scan the entire HD also.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Ron

I tried that & this is what happened, I disabled the constant rebooting & yup you guessed it, I got a blue screen with this message on it.

"A problem has been detected & windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

**unmountable_boot_volume

If this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new install ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any new updates you may need.

If problems persist, disable BIOS memory options such as caching, or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to restart your computer agian, blah, blah,"

Tech info***(stop:0x000000 ed,0x000000,0x864aced,oxc000009,0x0000000,0x000000 0)

Any translators here?

unmountable boot volume? Did you try booting to the last known good configuration?

Do you have a windows CD? what were you trying to do? Sounds like an install gone bad

[Praxeas]

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29286

Do you have a Win xp CD? Or even a friends?

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

unmountable boot volume? Did you try booting to the last known good configuration?


Yes, I did. It did not work.

Do you have a windows CD? what were you trying to do? Sounds like an install gone bad

My computer is a HP Pavillion Desktop a1510n & it has a recovery partition.
I think I have 3 discs around someplace as well that I created from that first boot up.

The computer also will not allow me to change the boot sequence to CD Rom.
When I opened up the recovery partition it told me, whoa, wait a minute, run PC Doctor first.
I did and it passed every test except the it failed on the short test?

Can a virus do this?
Can I use the Recovery disc to maybe fix just the Winders XP files that may be out of whack?
Is it all a lost cause?

Will we ever make it back to Kansas before we defeat the wicked witch?

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29286

Do you have a Win xp CD? Or even a friends?

I thought you were asking if I had friends!!!
Wheww, that goodness for rent a friend!

Yes, my friends have Windows XP discs as well as software to recover missing registry keys.

That reminds me, when I ran avast, it found a lot of viruses,adware, trojans in the Reg keys.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Ron

My computer is a HP Pavillion Desktop a1510n & it has a recovery partition.
I think I have 3 discs around someplace as well that I created from that first boot up.

The computer also will not allow me to change the boot sequence to CD Rom.
When I opened up the recovery partition it told me, whoa, wait a minute, run PC Doctor first.
I did and it passed every test except the it failed on the short test?

Can a virus do this?
Can I use the Recovery disc to maybe fix just the Winders XP files that may be out of whack?
Is it all a lost cause?

Will we ever make it back to Kansas before we defeat the wicked witch?

The recovery CDs might be able to fix the problem, if not they will do a format and reinstall everything. You might lose your files.

IF there is a recovery partition you should be able to hit a key at boot time and it will recover from that instead

Any bootable CD in the CD tray should boot up, if not you need to enter into the sys bios. You'd need to shut down completely and as soon as you turn the PC on hit the DEL key, If its not that it would be some other key like f11

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Ron

I thought you were asking if I had friends!!!
Wheww, that goodness for rent a friend!

Yes, my friends have Windows XP discs as well as software to recover missing registry keys.

That reminds me, when I ran avast, it found a lot of viruses,adware, trojans in the Reg keys.

Avast? I thought you ran Malwarebytes? Also I thought you had AVG?

You should never have more than one anti virus program installed

According to this link the rebooting problem could be the boot.ini file which you need that windows cd to boot to the recovery console to fix

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

The recovery CDs might be able to fix the problem, if not they will do a format and reinstall everything. You might lose your files.

IF there is a recovery partition you should be able to hit a key at boot time and it will recover from that instead

Any bootable CD in the CD tray should boot up, if not you need to enter into the sys bios. You'd need to shut down completely and as soon as you turn the PC on hit the DEL key, If its not that it would be some other key like f11

Thanks, I'll give it a try later. I have to go pick up my wife from work.

I will buy a box of tissues as well.

I have an external hard 500 Gig Hard Drive where I backed most of my computer to.

Guess what? It failed as well it will not spin!

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Avast? I thought you ran Malwarebytes? Also I thought you had AVG?

You should never have more than one anti virus program installed

According to this link the rebooting problem could be the boot.ini file which you need that windows cd to boot to the recovery console to fix

I got Malwarebytes when you told me too. I have AVG from 4 years ago when I purchased my computer.
I just got Avast when a friend recommended it over AVG.