Hard Drives REVERTED to 3 weeks back...

[IanGlinka]

The weirdest thing happened today... the data on the RAID array in our server has been set back to a state that it was 3 weeks ago. Anything created after 01/06/03 is gone. Anything modified after this date is gone.

Files that were moved after this date are back in their original location.

Does anyone know of a virus that might be responsible for this?

Thanks
Ian

 

[AVChap]

It's probably not a virus. Look at the possibility of someone mistakenly restoring an old backup. No virus that I'm aware of does this.

HTH, AVChap
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[yizhar]

HI.

It could also be a hardware failue of the RAID controller.

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Yizhar Hurwitz

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[Happo]

Hey,
No virus type that I have ever heard of could manage this feat. My guess would be hardware failure and/or human error in restoration, or lack therof.

Cheers...

 

[IanGlinka]

We're speculating that it was the RAID controller on the motherboard that did not do its job correctly. Being as there was no monitoring software that came with the board, the problem went unnoticed until it was too late and data was corrupted.

Thanks for the help, though...

Ian

 

[baadddsheep]

I am the some problem and it has been since October. Here is my setup.
Mobo Asus A7v
Pro AMD Athlon 900
Mem 512MB SDRAM
OS Win98 SE

Every 15 days my computer reverts back to the registry stored on Oct. 4, 02 (when I reformatted my hard drive). It always goes back to the first registry entry. I have 6 more recent saved regs. in the regedit list but it always grabs that one. Shortly after it disables my NAV2002 software. I can revert to a newer registry but I am still unable to use NAV2002. Any idea what is going on.
I have used trendmicro's housecall and no viruses are visible.
Any ideas.

 

[IanGlinka]

Our problem was related to a RAID array reverting to a hard drive that contained data from weeks ago. If you're running RAID, I would break the mirror and see what exactly is on each drive.

Ian

 

[baadddsheep]

no raid for me...any other ideas.

Oh, I updated the bios with no problems and have done several hard disk scans that say everything is ok.

 

[IanGlinka]

I don't know how good trendmicro's housecall is, but I do know it might be wise to get a trial version of norton 2003 or whatever it's up to and do a complete system scan from safe mode.

Scouring the net for things like "15 days registry reset" and stuff might not be a bad idea either.

Ian

 

[baadddsheep]

I cannot install any anti virus software. I removed NAV2002 with the uninstall tool available at NAV's website. I then installed NAV2003. Same thing

 

[KimberTech]

Ian....Trend Micro's scan works well.
There are quite a few good online scanners out there these days.

Sounds like you may also need a registry cleanout. Kimber

The more I learn,I realize how much more there is to know!

 

[Grunt2002]

Hi,

This must be a human mistake.

Do you have a security log tracking backups restore?