Rhys666
Programmer
- May 20, 2003
- 1,106
My machine at home was, (note the WAS!), runing winXP Home with Norton Internet Security 2004, and as far as i know the anti-virus definitions at the time were up to date. I'm connected to ADSL broadband through a router, connected to the LAN port on the PC.
On Friday last week the PC started to hang intermittently. After having to use the reset button on the box I tried to un the Norton Anti-Virus virus scan, but it would not load. By late Friday, the PC had crashed twice more and would no longer boot. When starting up it would read the memory and then fail to recognise the installed hard drive.
I could get into the BIOS setup, which would recongise and autoconfigure the hard drive 50% of the time and not recognise it the rest of the time. I once managed to almost get to the point of seeing the Windows XP start up page, but just when I thought it would get that far it crashed and rebooted again.
I disconnected the machine from all external connections, (ADSL etc), took it into a local PC shop where I know someone and they get no issues at all starting the machine. The only hardware differences between booting the machine at home and there are the monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and of course the lack of connections on the LAN card.
The guy in the shop was actually grateful he saw the machine as he'd seen 3 others he'd build come back in the same condition over the last week or so, and was getting a little concerned that he was losing it, (the ability to build a decent machine, which I assure you he does very well)., and is about 90% this is a virus.
I use peer to peer file sharing software called BearShare for comedy avi's, shareware and freeware and he did say the other machines he saw with the same problem had had Kazza or Kazza Lite installed.
Can anyone clarify what the problem may be, if is a known virus or if they believe this to be a fairly amazing co-incidence. As I'm a developer and spend a lot of time on the Net I did say I'd ask around on some of my Technical Sites and see if I could get info for him as he's in a new store at the mo and won't be ADSL'd till January so here I am. Any thoughts, knowledge or advice appreciated.
NB: We're rebuilding the machine from the bottom up, backing up the user documents on it, then formatting the hard drive and clean installing Win XP Pro (sp1a) to try to clean it up. If anyone has any thoughts that this may be a bad thing please do say so, as we've so far found no pertinant info elsewhere. Thanks Again!
Rhys
Rhys
Be careful that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a train coming the other way.
On Friday last week the PC started to hang intermittently. After having to use the reset button on the box I tried to un the Norton Anti-Virus virus scan, but it would not load. By late Friday, the PC had crashed twice more and would no longer boot. When starting up it would read the memory and then fail to recognise the installed hard drive.
I could get into the BIOS setup, which would recongise and autoconfigure the hard drive 50% of the time and not recognise it the rest of the time. I once managed to almost get to the point of seeing the Windows XP start up page, but just when I thought it would get that far it crashed and rebooted again.
I disconnected the machine from all external connections, (ADSL etc), took it into a local PC shop where I know someone and they get no issues at all starting the machine. The only hardware differences between booting the machine at home and there are the monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and of course the lack of connections on the LAN card.
The guy in the shop was actually grateful he saw the machine as he'd seen 3 others he'd build come back in the same condition over the last week or so, and was getting a little concerned that he was losing it, (the ability to build a decent machine, which I assure you he does very well)., and is about 90% this is a virus.
I use peer to peer file sharing software called BearShare for comedy avi's, shareware and freeware and he did say the other machines he saw with the same problem had had Kazza or Kazza Lite installed.
Can anyone clarify what the problem may be, if is a known virus or if they believe this to be a fairly amazing co-incidence. As I'm a developer and spend a lot of time on the Net I did say I'd ask around on some of my Technical Sites and see if I could get info for him as he's in a new store at the mo and won't be ADSL'd till January so here I am. Any thoughts, knowledge or advice appreciated.
NB: We're rebuilding the machine from the bottom up, backing up the user documents on it, then formatting the hard drive and clean installing Win XP Pro (sp1a) to try to clean it up. If anyone has any thoughts that this may be a bad thing please do say so, as we've so far found no pertinant info elsewhere. Thanks Again!
Rhys
Rhys
Be careful that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a train coming the other way.
