Uh OOOhh!

[jonthemod]

I'm sure this is virus related however there is no immediate way to diagnose what virus is infecting me. When trying to boot my system, it gets as far as the 'strting windows' screen and shuts down. The CMOS also now asks for a password that I have never set and some of the CMOS items appear to be changed, such as SeePU instead of CPU. Nothing seems available on either Technet, Symantec or McAfee support sites.

Any guesses, anyone....Bueller....Bueller?

 

[Jeff7181]

"What'd you do!?!?" - Chris Farley, Tommy Boy

Your virus scanner missed a virus? What one are you using? That's gonna be hard to clean up if it really is a virus that managed to get past your virus scanner.

 

[bjc112]

Dos Boot disk...

format C:\

 

[Taproot313]

I think I speak for everyone when I say "You've been hacked". I dont know how a virus of that caliber could have got past your virus scanner. The only thing I can think is flash the bios, using a boot disk and then reformat your drive(s). If that doesnt work you may have to contact your board manufacturer. That actually kind of scares me...

 

[Harvey]

There are viruses that attack your CMOS. You may be able to reset the CMOS by using the "Clear CMOS" jumper or by removing the battery for a few minutes.

If you regain access to your machine, run your virus scanner in Safe Mode. Some viruses also attack your AV software so you may have to run a primary scan from the CD. Unfortunately, you won't have the latest virus definitions when you do.

Another trick is to temporarily install it as a slave on another machine that isn't infected and use that machine's AV software to scan your drive.

Hope that helps.

 

[jonthemod]

Thanks guy. I use NAV2002. I pulled the drive and loaded into the dock in my old system Updated the definitions, scanned and still nothing. Hack sounds right but I think I have hardware issues now.

I reset the cmos and put the drive back. booted up and no keyboard/mouse. Both are usb and so restarted and checked the cmos for the peripheral setting for the usb support. when I enable it, I get the crash again. I suspect there may be a short in the keyboard. My wife advises that a neighbour, quite loaded at the tiem, was on the pc Saturday night.

Still working on it.