Virus

[KeithD]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!

That was the sound of Andy's post going over Dom's head

[aromulus]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!

That was the sound of Andy's post going over Dom's head

No s**t....

Although I am most grateful for the hints.........

Can you try in the Queen's English.....???

Ta...........

Got all that ok, cheers.
Bit late now, tho.
Trying to get hold of some hotshot cousin, overthere, to do just about everything legal to that pc.
Failing that, I will get professional help from the guys I bought the peripherals from.
Don't care about the cost, because it always be cheaper than a few phone calls.

[andypaul]

No s**t....

Although I am most grateful for the hints.........

Can you try in the Queen's English.....???

Ta...........

Got all that ok, cheers.
Bit late now, tho.
Trying to get hold of some hotshot cousin, overthere, to do just about everything legal to that pc.
Failing that, I will get professional help from the guys I bought the peripherals from.
Don't care about the cost, because it always be cheaper than a few phone calls.

Try to make sure they dont just wanna sell you a new hard disk, also do you have a win xp disc or recovery disc ( a lot of the big companies have a win xp disc made specially just for that pc) If they give you a quote let people on here check it out for you.

Many pc repair places i get told suggest the disk is corrupted (ie no good) and can't be used again ( occasionally happens but not as often as people suggest trust me)

If i was there i would first try to boot in safe mode (f8 on most laptops or pcs and gives a menu of options) if no good would try booting with a special disk (booting starting the pc from a disk) with antivirus and other software.

I would hope to recover the special files, depending on the virus this may or may not be possible.

The other possibilty is if you have a bsod then some hardware adding is causing the problem then disconnecting everything but the montior, keyboard and mouse may help if you try to load in safe mode.

If you can boot up and get to a windows screen

press ctrl+shift+esc this will display the task manager

this can show you various bits of info but will show what programs are running in many cases the easiest way to find a "bad program" is to see it running. Then just search for it in file explorer and delete.

A friend had a program eating up his hard drive space he let me on remote check his task manager we found a strange program we deleted it using hijack this and it was still there so belive it or not we did a search for it and found this huuugggee file which we simply deleted it. It never came back. He ran alsorts of programs in the end we did it the simple way.

If possible if you can ask the folks back home to tell you anything written on the screen code numbers etc.
See if this helps Dom po http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1647
Also the beeps it makes can tell you if there is a hardware fault.

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/pc_hardw...eeps_mean.html


If the photos and other files are very important, ie no copies anywhere else.

Maybe worth buying a new hdd asking your tech guy to load the windows disk in and just get the skype up and running.
Setting up windows is not to tough and then adding on the other programs shouldn't be tough at all.

Like you say the money saved in calls over these special months particulary for Pinays abroad may be more important.

The hdd can then be worked on at a later date. The problem will not get any worse if you leave it a little while.

I hope the Pc is up and running soon for JET her family and your bank balance

[LEAHnew]

Try to make sure they dont just wanna sell you a new hard disk, also do you have a win xp disc or recovery disc ( a lot of the big companies have a win xp disc made specially just for that pc) If they give you a quote let people on here check it out for you.

Many pc repair places i get told suggest the disk is corrupted (ie no good) and can't be used again ( occasionally happens but not as often as people suggest trust me)

If i was there i would first try to boot in safe mode (f8 on most laptops or pcs and gives a menu of options) if no good would try booting with a special disk (booting starting the pc from a disk) with antivirus and other software.

I would hope to recover the special files, depending on the virus this may or may not be possible.

The other possibilty is if you have a bsod then some hardware adding is causing the problem then disconnecting everything but the montior, keyboard and mouse may help if you try to load in safe mode.

If you can boot up and get to a windows screen

press ctrl+shift+esc this will display the task manager

this can show you various bits of info but will show what programs are running in many cases the easiest way to find a "bad program" is to see it running. Then just search for it in file explorer and delete.

A friend had a program eating up his hard drive space he let me on remote check his task manager we found a strange program we deleted it using hijack this and it was still there so belive it or not we did a search for it and found this huuugggee file which we simply deleted it. It never came back. He ran alsorts of programs in the end we did it the simple way.

Nice post kuya Andy very informative thanks