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Possilbe Virus, Computer Reboots, Can't Boot any Options aargh!! 11-19-2006
Posted by aargh!! on November 19, 2006, 10:33 pm
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I looking for some tools to that check for current viruses and can scan
boot sectors.
I have a Windows XP machine that reboots after getting the Windows
Welcome Screen in normal or Safe Mode. Actually with any option
selected it reboots and a few seconds, even the option not to reboot on
error it reboots. I

If anyone knows a good utility I would appreciate it. So far I have had
no success in repair.
Here is what I have done so far. I took the drive out and installed it
as a slave in another machine and was able to access the drive and copy
data over to another drive. Yes I did an Anti Virus scan with Norton
finding no virus, albeit this version expired a few months back. So it
would have to be a recent virus. But the computer that I copied the
data over to shows to signs of infection. So it's probably a virus
loaded from bad software and not data files. My friends kids did have
filing sharing 360Share loaded on this machine.

So yes I can access the drive as a slave. So I know the drive is good.

Any ideas

Thanks

Howard


Posted by David H. Lipman on November 19, 2006, 10:40 pm
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| I looking for some tools to that check for current viruses and can scan
| boot sectors.
| I have a Windows XP machine that reboots after getting the Windows
| Welcome Screen in normal or Safe Mode. Actually with any option
| selected it reboots and a few seconds, even the option not to reboot on
| error it reboots. I
|
| If anyone knows a good utility I would appreciate it. So far I have had
| no success in repair.
| Here is what I have done so far. I took the drive out and installed it
| as a slave in another machine and was able to access the drive and copy
| data over to another drive. Yes I did an Anti Virus scan with Norton
| finding no virus, albeit this version expired a few months back. So it
| would have to be a recent virus. But the computer that I copied the
| data over to shows to signs of infection. So it's probably a virus
| loaded from bad software and not data files. My friends kids did have
| filing sharing 360Share loaded on this machine.
|
| So yes I can access the drive as a slave. So I know the drive is good.
|
| Any ideas
|
| Thanks
|
| Howard

The OS is corrupted.

Perform a Repair Install using the WinXP distributtion CDROM.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by howard1291 on November 20, 2006, 1:04 am
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Oops I assumed. Yes I already tried doing a Repair Install.
The process seemed to go OK. No error messages. But I Boot
Up after install same problem. That's why I removed the drive and
connected it as a slave. To check the drive without loading system
files
from it's OS.

Howard

David H. Lipman wrote:
>
> | I looking for some tools to that check for current viruses and can scan
> | boot sectors.
> | I have a Windows XP machine that reboots after getting the Windows
> | Welcome Screen in normal or Safe Mode. Actually with any option
> | selected it reboots and a few seconds, even the option not to reboot on
> | error it reboots. I
> |
> | If anyone knows a good utility I would appreciate it. So far I have had
> | no success in repair.
> | Here is what I have done so far. I took the drive out and installed it
> | as a slave in another machine and was able to access the drive and copy
> | data over to another drive. Yes I did an Anti Virus scan with Norton
> | finding no virus, albeit this version expired a few months back. So it
> | would have to be a recent virus. But the computer that I copied the
> | data over to shows to signs of infection. So it's probably a virus
> | loaded from bad software and not data files. My friends kids did have
> | filing sharing 360Share loaded on this machine.
> |
> | So yes I can access the drive as a slave. So I know the drive is good.
> |
> | Any ideas
> |
> | Thanks
> |
> | Howard
>
> The OS is corrupted.
>
> Perform a Repair Install using the WinXP distributtion CDROM.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


Posted by Malke on November 20, 2006, 8:23 am
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howard1291 wrote:

> Oops I assumed. Yes I already tried doing a Repair Install.
> The process seemed to go OK. No error messages. But I Boot
> Up after install same problem. That's why I removed the drive and
> connected it as a slave. To check the drive without loading system
> files
> from it's OS.

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>>
>> | I looking for some tools to that check for current viruses and can
>> | scan boot sectors.
>> | I have a Windows XP machine that reboots after getting the Windows
>> | Welcome Screen in normal or Safe Mode. Actually with any option
>> | selected it reboots and a few seconds, even the option not to
>> | reboot on error it reboots. I
>> |
>> | If anyone knows a good utility I would appreciate it. So far I have
>> | had no success in repair.
>> | Here is what I have done so far. I took the drive out and installed
>> | it as a slave in another machine and was able to access the drive
>> | and copy data over to another drive. Yes I did an Anti Virus scan
>> | with Norton finding no virus, albeit this version expired a few
>> | months back. So it would have to be a recent virus. But the
>> | computer that I copied the data over to shows to signs of
>> | infection. So it's probably a virus loaded from bad software and
>> | not data files. My friends kids did have filing sharing 360Share
>> | loaded on this machine.

>> The OS is corrupted.
>>
>> Perform a Repair Install using the WinXP distributtion CDROM.

Howard - If you need the data on the drive get it off. Then format the
drive and clean-install Windows. I would first check the hard drive's
health with a diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive mftr.
There's no point in installing an operating system on a faulty hard
drive. Then if the drive is healthy, accept that the operating system
is too badly damaged to be repaired and move on.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Posted by Ben M. Schorr - MVP on November 19, 2006, 10:40 pm
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Aloha aargh!!,

I'm guessing it's not a virus but rather a corrupted system file. What if
you boot the Windows XP CD and do a repair installation?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

> I looking for some tools to that check for current viruses and can
> scan
> boot sectors.
> I have a Windows XP machine that reboots after getting the Windows
> Welcome Screen in normal or Safe Mode. Actually with any option
> selected it reboots and a few seconds, even the option not to reboot
> on
> error it reboots. I
> If anyone knows a good utility I would appreciate it. So far I have
> had
> no success in repair.
> Here is what I have done so far. I took the drive out and installed it
> as a slave in another machine and was able to access the drive and
> copy
> data over to another drive. Yes I did an Anti Virus scan with Norton
> finding no virus, albeit this version expired a few months back. So it
> would have to be a recent virus. But the computer that I copied the
> data over to shows to signs of infection. So it's probably a virus
> loaded from bad software and not data files. My friends kids did have
> filing sharing 360Share loaded on this machine.
> So yes I can access the drive as a slave. So I know the drive is good.
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thanks
>
> Howard
>



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