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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot
and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
If it's a HP Computer it should have a recovery partition with a
fresh version of the OS on it. Go to site below. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=1154492 "French Quarter" wrote in message ... My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
If it's a HP Computer it should have a recovery partition with a
fresh version of the OS on it. Go to site below. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=1154492 "French Quarter" wrote in message ... My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
French Quarter wrote:
My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. If you want to save the data on the machine, you can attach the hard drive to another computer and copy over. Use a Thumb drive to move the data back afterwards. But first, to save you all that effort, I would try this: Burn BitDefender, or another program listed at the link below, to a CD (using a working machine) and test the infected machine with it. BitDefender also has a Rootkit checker on the Linux Desktop; run it if you think that's the problem: http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootab...download-list/ Download the executable rather than the .iso image, if one is available, (though no .exe is available for BitDefender). After the scan is run, if you elect to quarantine files, they're quarantined to RAM and lost after you reboot. You'll need to copy any quarantined files to the hard drive, a thumb drive or elsewhere before exiting. If you then have control of the machine, run these: Malwarebytes© Corporation http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe SuperAntispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...freevspro.html -- Joe =o) |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
French Quarter wrote:
My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. If you want to save the data on the machine, you can attach the hard drive to another computer and copy over. Use a Thumb drive to move the data back afterwards. But first, to save you all that effort, I would try this: Burn BitDefender, or another program listed at the link below, to a CD (using a working machine) and test the infected machine with it. BitDefender also has a Rootkit checker on the Linux Desktop; run it if you think that's the problem: http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootab...download-list/ Download the executable rather than the .iso image, if one is available, (though no .exe is available for BitDefender). After the scan is run, if you elect to quarantine files, they're quarantined to RAM and lost after you reboot. You'll need to copy any quarantined files to the hard drive, a thumb drive or elsewhere before exiting. If you then have control of the machine, run these: Malwarebytes© Corporation http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe SuperAntispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...freevspro.html -- Joe =o) |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
Looking at the conclusions your coming to I would recommend you seek out a
reputable shop. We can offer no advise on what to use for removal as you've provided no info on the infection. fixmbr will server no purpose at all, and replacing a perfectly good hard drive because the PC is infected just makes no sense at all. If your up for it a format and reload is a good place to start, then recover your data from backups. -- -- "French Quarter" wrote in message ... My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
Looking at the conclusions your coming to I would recommend you seek out a
reputable shop. We can offer no advise on what to use for removal as you've provided no info on the infection. fixmbr will server no purpose at all, and replacing a perfectly good hard drive because the PC is infected just makes no sense at all. If your up for it a format and reload is a good place to start, then recover your data from backups. -- -- "French Quarter" wrote in message ... My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:50:51 -0600, "French Quarter"
wrote: My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. How do you know it's a virus? What virus is it? Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Certainly not. Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:50:51 -0600, "French Quarter"
wrote: My neighbor's HP Media Center m7257c Desktop PC has a VIRUS. After reboot and XP loads, it shuts down to the Blue Screen of Death. How do you know it's a virus? What virus is it? Try to remove the VIRUS with what? Use Fix MBR at Recovery Console? Would you replace the HD? Certainly not. Format the HD then reinstall XP Media? Thank you for your time. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
Thank you Rich Barry.
I tried the recovery partition. Code Purple System Configuration Error Your System has detected a Configuration Error. Please report this error to Customer Care using the phone number found in the Warranty Guide, etc. (Code Purple) |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
Thank you Rich Barry. I tried the recovery partition. Code Purple System Configuration Error Your System has detected a Configuration Error. Please report this error to Customer Care using the phone number found in the Warranty Guide, etc. (Code Purple) |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
Thank you Elmo Joe, Im installing all those programs on a Bootable CD and
DVD. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
Thank you Elmo Joe, Im installing all those programs on a Bootable CD and
DVD. |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
David B, I selected the reformat and reload but to no avail cause HP needs
to make TATTOO $Money |
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Virus Ruined Hard Drive HP Media Center m7257c
David B, I selected the reformat and reload but to no avail cause HP needs
to make TATTOO $Money |
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