Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties  Aug 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Bit of an update:
Backed up my important files and have done a complete reformat.
PC is back to normal, EXCEPT I get the following msg when I start up now:
Pri Master hard disk: S.M.A.R.T... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 I am backing up just now. Been 8 hours already and not even half of my 300 GB of Documents have been fully backed up. The PC is unbelievably slow just now, so will do a full reformat and let you... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Do you think it would be ok to TRY this before reformatting? In other words, do you think it would be possible for me to try this as a last resort? |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Yeah, I did screw up. I'll try the sfc / scannow fix first and see if that has a decent outcome. If nothing good comes of it, I'll backup my important files then reformat....
I'm starting to think... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Thanks, Crunchie. I only used ComboFix once and I did so because it fixed the bulk of my probs last year. I am sorry about jumping right in. To be honest, though, the PC was running a little better... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 11th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 I appreciate that the HJT cleanup was minor and think ComboFix may have screwed things up. I restored about two hours ago back to before using ComboFix, as I am still unsure what caused this problem... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 11th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Thanks VERY much for the help, guys. Jholland1964, you have given very strong, indepth advice.
The PC was running a lot better, but has now crashed again and is "back to square one". So, I don't... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 11th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Thanks very much for looking at the logs....
Fortunately, I did keep backups of the registry logs. When restoring to the settings last Thursday (that was before Reg Mechanic delted 500+ entries),... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Aug 11th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 839 Hi all,
My PC, which was purchased brand new last year, has started to take a very long time to load up programs and tends to freeze when I click on a website link or program file. The PC has 3GB... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,907 I managed to get the problem resolved. It was quite painstaking, but I'll summarize the other things I did to fix the problem.
- Visited Jotti (http://virusscan.jotti.org/) to find out which AV... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,907 Hi there,
This is my first post and I have already found this post extremely helpful. It's made a tough situation a lot easier.
I bought a brand new PC last week and was online last night.... |
