Re: Virus?
- From: George Macdonald <fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:07:07 -0500
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:47:35 GMT, no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Newbie64) wrote:
>I have a AMD K6-500MGHZ that has been running strong for the last few
>years using windows 98 SE. It obviously has it's limitations but for
>what my kids are using it for it's been running fine until recently.
>It suddenly would only boot in safe mode for no apparent reason. I
>reset the BIOS along with repeated attempts changing a variety of the
>settings but in trying to reboot in 'normal' it would only 'hang' up
>during the process. A step by step boot indicated a file
>$SYS$AVI.vxd that was trying to load. I did some reading about it
>and determined that this was a bad file that didn't need to be there.
> Booted in safe mode and removed this file from the registry along
>with the file aries.vxd. Performed a step by step reboot and the
>file was no longer there and the reboot worked to a degree sans any
>USB ports available. Rebooted and checked the BIOS settings again
>only to find that in the PNP settings the USB ports were disabled. I
>enabled them, saved the settings, and rebooted. Then it continually
>asked for a 'boot disk' no matter what configuration I put in the
>BIOS. Used the boot disk, performed scandisk, a lot of errors were
>found in file names and directories which were fixed but now all I
>can do when I reboot is a quick flash of the windows 98 screen
>followed by the C:\ prompt. I looked in the directory but it looks
>like all there is in the listing is 'directory001' through
>"directory031" it doesn't look right but can't be sure. I don't
>think I've done anything major but can't determine if there's some
>sort of file that's missing on the boot that I need to put back in or
>a setting that I've changed to make it miss windows. I was
>convinced that there was a virus on this computer but was never able
>to track it down because it just seemed that some of the settings
>were changing on their own. When I performed scandisk the errors
>that were found had odd characters within them (like smiley faces).
>The hard drive is there and is recognized through FDISK and it boots
>up as it always did but I'm left with the c-prompt. Any ideas or
>thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I think Gary nailed it - here's a list of Sony/BMG XCP protected CDs:
http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html.
The best place to start might be to reinstall the Sony software and then
use their uninstall procedures available from the above site.
--
Rgds, George Macdonald
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