Virus Question
 

Any idea what kind of virus fucks up the whole drive disabling it to boot up to windows and when you check the drive all the data is garbled. we are currently disabled right now and were trying to recover the data that is lost. Any input is much appreciated.

Sorry, not a techie, so I'm no help, but I do know that if you run Windows XP you can revert it to a previous date on your system. I got a trojan on my system and there was nothing out there that could find/fix/repair it. I was just about to reformat when I tried the Revert option. The system basically "remembers" how things were on certain dates when it backs itself up. I reverted to a date that was prior to the infection, and i was completely back to normal. Reversals can be reversed to if needed.

Sorry I couldn't be more help

yea they are called restore points. else if your not on xp, try to hook it up as a slave and then pull what you can off of it.

-myke

problem is, it wont even go or boot to windows, when i checked my shit all i can read is machine language like $%#$@$#$@ and shit like that. I already tried making it a "slave" drive still same

i guess you can try to insert windows and just reinstall the barebones of windows. in xp dont hit r the first time and then proceed to install it over. hopefully that can remedy your problem.

-myke

yeah i hope so. any ideas where these viruses came from? i dont remember downloading executables and shit that virused can be attached to.

This info is for Boot Sector Virus

Procedure

Removal of boot sector viruses from the hard drive

The process needed to remove this type of virus from hard drive and memory is as follows:

NOTE: The instructions below are for Windows 95, 98 and ME. Users of NT, 2K and XP should not reboot their machine and should consult their anti-virus vendor for case-by-case support. The process below will not remove viruses from infected floppies, these must be scanned and disinfected after the memory and hard drive are clean.

+ Boot the machine from a clean, write-protected floppy system diskette.
+ This will take you to the DOS prompt (something like A:\> .)
+ You now need to run your anti-virus scanner or disinfect manually.

AV scanner

To do this, browse to the necessary location on your hard drive then run your anti-virus scanner from the command-line.

The location of the command-line scanner varies between products, consult your anti-virus product documentation for details.

Manual

The process described here will remove boot sector viruses from the master boot record (MBR) of hard disks. Since there are several boot sector viruses which also infect files, the method of disinfection using an AV scanner is preferable. It is also possible that in some cases this process will leave some or all of the hard-drive unreadable, the check described should lessen this danger but users are advised that success is not guaranteed. Users of multi-boot systems should be aware that this may leave all but the primary DOS partition unbootable.

After a clean boot type:


DIR C:


(Where C is the drive letter of your hard disk) Do you see a correct listing of what is on the hard disk? If so, you can usually manually overwrite the viral code by issuing the following command:


FDISK /MBR


Once this is done, remove all floppy disks from your machine, and reboot as normal.

Hope it helps...

Thanks for the input Helix :thumbsup