HDD light stays on constantly 1

[shaffield]

I recently received a worm or something similar
(not a virus) while visiting Kazaa. The worm started writing C: drive to a separate disk, D:. I didn't know how to stop it and it had NAV covered too. When NAV popped up and gave me options and I hit one, the program went back to where it had been and closed NAV.

My computer finally lost the ability to even get in safe mode, so I formatted C:, D: and partitions of the C: drive,
E: and F:. I put in my backup and everything is fine now except my HDD light stays on, as it did when the worm was in control. I can't find anything in the CMOS that would tell the light to stay on. Reckon it's the main board? TIA

 

[carrr]

Dunno if this fits your case, but there's removal tool at the bottom of the page that might clear things up for you...

http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3385557,00.html

 

[carrr]

Dunno if this fits your case, but there's removal tool at the bottom of the page that might clear things up for you...

http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3385557,00.html

If this doesn't fit, the "Lolol" worm might be the one. Info on it and how to clean it up (time consuming) is here:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32lolola.html

 

[shaffield]

All files checked out OK. Thanks for the suggestion; I'll search it out at Kazaa if it ever happens again.
Since you say the Lolol worm is tiime consuming, I'll let you know in a little while about it. Thanks again.

 

[shaffield]

Apparently the worm was been wiped out when the drives were formatted. I couldn't find reference to it anywhere on the computer nor in the registry.
HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version\runservices didn't have Configuration Loader in it.

Thanks for your help in understanding what may have happened. I'm sure it will help me at some point in the future. You are a great resource on this forum. Thanks

 

[carrr]

Thanks, shaffield.

You might consider this as something to look at. Maybe you've go tsomething going on in the background that is making that light glow. Real disk activity...
There's so much spyware going around, that if you haven't, please download and run SpyBot S&D (

http://spybot.eon.net.au/)

If you're like me, you'll be surprised at what it turns up.

 

[khawkins]

i think that the worm might still be in control i would recommend that you fdisk and start the the system over in full try that and then e-mail me @ tech-khawkins@cox.net

then i will go farther in this eposode that i can help you ???

then also do you have a good virus PROG that can like cantine the virus for you if not i would suggest that to ???????

 

[shaffield]

Hey Carrr, if I never find the answer to the problem I have, I've found Spybot! That thing hits the low, middle and high spots of the computer. Nothing will escape Spybot from what little I've seen of it.

I guess I didn't make it clear that I had Fdisked my drives but I did when I gave up on trying to get rid of the worm.

I'm convinced there's no worm there now. I'm going to change my drive cables in the next couple of days. I'll let you know if anything good happens. Thanks for your interest and Spybot!!

 

[carrr]

Whee

http://www...fdisk

after all. Let us know if your problems still persist. Good luck...