Bubbles
We Can't All Be Smart.
just a warning for yeah all, i no virus are made everyday. most of them are picked up by a virus scanner before they enter your computer though. the other day i got this stupid virus on my computer not knowing because no notification from the virus scanner (what was fully updated the day before)
anyway this virus got into my system. i uploaded some pictures to the net and made a post today still unaware of this virus. all of a sudden it triggered. m explorer.exe ended and started over and over again. i though hum i got an idea lets try click on virus scan? hum no luck explorer error it closed it down. i restarted everything looked ok. i click on anything explorer ends and starts again. hum now I'm getting mad. i reboot go into safe mode. hum same problem still strange i think. i went to my command prompt loaded virus scanner form there (success it works) virus scanning in progress it ends humm nothing picked up. ok this is strange., i think hang on system restore. done that hum same problem. only option left is reinstall windows. it turns out that when i was installing i noticed the boot sector had increased by a few MB. the virus was a boot sector virus. the only way to get rid of these virus is to delete the boot sector (this makes windows unbeatable) you need a full reinstall from BIOS. so i done just that. now computer works fine.
i don't want this one happending again so i set up the computer to how i wanted it and made a boot CD. now my PC will boot to just how it was last time when i get something like this again.
be warned boot sector virus cannot be detected once installed.
just thought id give yeah the heads up on my nice sunday of rest.
anyway this virus got into my system. i uploaded some pictures to the net and made a post today still unaware of this virus. all of a sudden it triggered. m explorer.exe ended and started over and over again. i though hum i got an idea lets try click on virus scan? hum no luck explorer error it closed it down. i restarted everything looked ok. i click on anything explorer ends and starts again. hum now I'm getting mad. i reboot go into safe mode. hum same problem still strange i think. i went to my command prompt loaded virus scanner form there (success it works) virus scanning in progress it ends humm nothing picked up. ok this is strange., i think hang on system restore. done that hum same problem. only option left is reinstall windows. it turns out that when i was installing i noticed the boot sector had increased by a few MB. the virus was a boot sector virus. the only way to get rid of these virus is to delete the boot sector (this makes windows unbeatable) you need a full reinstall from BIOS. so i done just that. now computer works fine.
i don't want this one happending again so i set up the computer to how i wanted it and made a boot CD. now my PC will boot to just how it was last time when i get something like this again.
be warned boot sector virus cannot be detected once installed.
just thought id give yeah the heads up on my nice sunday of rest.