Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines  Jul 24th, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 Re: disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
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Erm, heh heh heh...:icon_redface:
I sorted the power problem... I'd pulled out the power lead for the processor cooling fan while changing the drives... Don't think I fried... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 23rd, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 Re: disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
:icon_cry: Oh Dear...
Fair play to ye! I followed your instructions and it worked grand... It got as far as formatting the new master HDD and I went of for a nice cup of tea while it was... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 22nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 Re: disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
Aha! Gotcha!:icon_cheesygrin:
Right... The slave is st to slave (no jumpers present)
The Master is set to cable select
The dvd RW is also cable select
The dvd rom I can't see but I'd say it was... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 21st, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 Re: disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
Erm.... ? Cable select? That's outside my field of understanding!:|
I've read your advice a few times Fren but it just won't sink in... Sorry for being such an eejit, but can you explain it step by... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 19th, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 Re: disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
Ah its never as simple eh?
I can't afford a retail copy of windows... so can I swap physically the two drives over, set the cuurent slave to master and vice versa, and still use the restore cd? If... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 17th, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 Re: disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
Go raibh maith agat!
Erm, not sure how cmos works but I think the drive could be dead. Tried to use the chkdsk from the restore cd but it said the disk had unrecoverable errors... do you know if I... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 7,917 disc read error and wont boot! AAAgh!
Ah. Yes... Another dead machine I'm afraid... When I start my Compaq Presario 6000 series desktop all I get is something like "Disk read error press ctrl, alt, delete to restart."
There was a blue... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 23rd, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 515 Re: Oh No Not Another Hjt Log!?!
Thanks!
Yeah tried the ol defrag thing and I use CCleaner very regularly.... I guess the old girl's just getting a bit senile... Must save up a few bob and get a zippy wee strumpet!
Adh mor ort... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 22nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 515  Oh No Not Another Hjt Log!?!
Yup sorry geezers and geezesses...
I've run AVG antivirus and anti spy and adaware but this (old) 'puter is just getting slower and s l o w e r ...
I'd appreciate yous scraping your way through... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Feb 27th, 2007 |
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| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Feb 27th, 2007 |
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| Forum: Mac Users Lounge Feb 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,726 Open Office and X11 pain in the Posterior!
Am I the only one who found that installing X11 from the install disks needed "Pacifist" 3rd party (4th party?) software just to find the X11 software?!
As a mac newbie, before today I had no Idea... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Sep 3rd, 2006 |
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| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Sep 3rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,263 Can't boot! Keeps restarting
I have a similar problem to the person whose "kids did it"...
My wee fella's only 5 but somehow after he got up early and tried shutting down the PC with the "on" button... found a message asking if... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 23rd, 2006 |
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| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 606 connection bridge wizard taking FOREVER
Ay up, chums!
I tried (like a fool) to use the connections wizard to set up a firewire connection between my home desktop and my work laptop...
I did the laptop first and had no bother but the... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 29th, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,706 Re: Download trojan on my laptop!
Ay up Tayspen!
Thanks a million for all your help... You folks at Daniweb are flippin great! I still haven't worked out why you do it, but you do it well!
Good luck with everyone elses problems and... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,706 Re: Download trojan on my laptop!
Ay up, tayspen!
Sorry its been a while... been a mad couple of days...
Anyway, C\WINDOWS\services.exe is gone or I couldn't find it anyway :)
HJT couldn't find the windows updater either, I dunno... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 24th, 2006 |
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| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 24th, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,706 Re: Download trojan on my laptop!
Ay up, Tayspen... I managed to work out a way of getting ewido onto the other laptop without using the net...
Wow! ewido really kicks! It asked if I wasnted to delete a couple of things that had... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 24th, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,706 Re: Download trojan on my laptop!
Thanks Tayspen!
I got as far as "empty recycle bin" tonight as I can only access the web by wireless, this evening, which i don't have on the work laptop...
I really appreciate you going through... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 23rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,706 Re: Download trojan on my laptop!
Ay up Tayspen!
Thanks for the quick reply... I know you just Love these HJT logs so here goes...
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 15:37:59, on 3/23/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 23rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,706 Download trojan on my laptop!
:-| Norton found this download trojan 11 times on my laptop and can't clean it even on safe mode... When I set up our new broadband connection at work I was horrified to get a porn links page popup... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties May 25th, 2005 |
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| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties May 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,150 Re: W32.Spybot.Worm!!!!
Ay up again! Erm...problem free eh? :rolleyes: I think I'll give it a miss... Can Microsoft do a test to see if I've got all the available security patches without just telling me to upgrade to SP2?... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties May 24th, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,150 Re: W32.Spybot.Worm!!!!
Ay up! I think that's it sorted! Thanks a million!
I'm planning on wiping the new second hand hard disc anyway so hopefully that's the end of that.
One other thing. Is service pack 2 still dodgy? I... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties May 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,150 W32.Spybot.Worm!!!!
Erm ay up fellows...
I recently installed a used hard drive and it seems to have this on it...
any help on getting rid of the fecker?
Go raibh maith agat agus adh mor ort! :confused: |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Feb 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
:o Ah... Ahem!... Er sorry about that... my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend, (repeat... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Feb 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Uh oh...
I was checking system 32 for suspicious dlls by arranging them bt date modified and came up with vsconfig.xml...
I googled it and symantec seem to think its to do with backdoorIRC... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 31st, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Nice one crunchie!
Does this mean I'm clean now? I can hardly believe it , it seems like a LONG time since all this started...
Thanks for all the patience and help and happy birthday to all you... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 30th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Ay up, Crunchie!
Back again, sorry I didn't reply sooner but it's been a bit of a mad weekend. Lots of kids and helping a friend move house...
Anyway I sussed the silent runners thing and... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 28th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Ay up!
I did everything that steosaur suggested there. Nowt suspicious turned up apart from some stuuf from ad companies in the personal profile temp folder. I deleted everything inthere... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 27th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Ay up!
I just did the shoot the messenger thing. When I told Zone alarm to make Messenger ask for net access it promptly did...
Its just called messenger not windows mesenger or msn messenger or... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 27th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Ay up, Crunchie!
I think that's just about sorted it... Messenger still asks for access so I tink there's a few bits of the trojan around.
I've got the XP disc now so in theory Can I uninstall... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Ay up and cead mile failte!
Its the morning again... I've just enabled the connection and unlocked the fire wall. I couldn't get web access for a while and there was an extra program running icon... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 24th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
The files I've deleted from the eScan log were all created back at the beginning of December (5/12/04 23:03) This is a fair while ago so I'll leave this option as a later resort...
The infected... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 24th, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
I'm on my lunch at the minute so I can't really do much... Any way the jury seems to be out on how to get rid of this beastie...
I can't be the only one to get it can I? Can I? Please tell me I'm... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Oh Pants!
I just reresd the bit about not doing a system restore before removing the other viruses in post 3 ...
Lads... sorry... It's late and I've spent too long trying to work this out my brains... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
Ay up Crunchie and Caperjack and any other of you public spirited nutters!
Before your last post I got very worried about simply removing the ms0b929b.dll with the antivirus... so I did a system... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 43 Views: 27,107 Re: I've got Trojan.Holax... is this bad?
HA HA! I've been out and made a full roast dinner and it's only just finished!!!
:lol: Anyway here's what its log says:
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