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Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-18 09:19:27
Okay, my PC (the one that's in my bedroom), has been pissing me off. [spoiler=Problems of my PC in the past]I've had it about 5 years, and as long I've had it, it's been nothing but a fucking nightmare. When I first had the XP: Home Edition (when I first got it), it suddenly had a blue screen of death, and it was like a error stop screen, but I wasn't sure what it meant, and all these numbers showed up and they scrolled down the screen then the computer restarted it's self after, and was okay for a while. So, about a while later I started having issues with it. I kept getting virus attacks, even thought I had AVG, fully up to date, Windows Defender online, and I still kept getting a virus or 3. About a while later they were gone. One night I had a problem with my music downloader LimeWire, it wasn't working properly, so I went to Download.com, and they're a good site, I've trusted them for a long time, so I was looking at their list, to see if I could get a new LimeWire, as the one I had, wasn't working properly, so I put in the search bar LimeWire, and I got results, and this one seemed new, it was called LimeWire Gold, and I was dead wrong about it. It turned out to be a virus. A bad one. It installed on my Drive C. and it was a nightmare to get rid of. I tried a new XP account, and it was still there. So I talked to a gay friend of mine's boyfriend about it and he's bit of a PC expert, like I am and he gave me this file that was to rid of the virus, so about a month later the trojan was finally gone. About a year later I started getting pop-ups, even though I didn't have Firefox, turned on and they kept appearing on my desktop, and they were porn pop-ups, the same type my old 98 computer kept getting, so about a while later I woke up around 4am, (due to my insomnia), and I went into the small games room my parents had in the house, and I turned on my PC, it loaded like it did, and all of a sudden it went to desktop and things started loading up a strange error pop-up, and I saw my start menu bar start changing white then all of a sudden a fatal error stop screen (aka Fatal Blue Screens of Death) started popping up. Then I said my to my brother that  my PC was a total ass. So, about a few weeks later they kept coming up so back then we called out a PC expert the same guy we knew who fixed my 98 before the system failure, and fixed my PC's problems, with virus attacks, and such, so he wiped my computer and started again, and it was fine for a while. So, about a while later I was playing Guild Wars with a few of my online friends, then suddenly my PC's screen went black, the monitor light was flashing (meaning it was on standby), and my PC wasn't loading. This happened about twice that night.[/spoiler] So, since I've had my PC it's been so weird. I've had one of my uncles/cousins to repair my parents PC after we had a power failure and it fucked their computer up so he took mine to get it sorted due to the fact the blue screens of death returned. Again. So, now all my PC does it crash. Not hanging like, where a lot of my programes/stuff just stops responding, and there's no viruses, no worms, no spyware, no maware, no crap. I've done scans, and nothing is found. My PC is slow (as always) and drives me nuts. What do  you guys think? I'm out of ideas, yet I'm meant to know about a PC, yet this is puzzling me. I know I need to remove the system files from my Drive E, cause they're only copies where the original copies are on C. So, what do you lot think? At the moment my PC was upgraded into Windows XP: Professional Edition, as when I first got it, it was Home Edition, where my parents is Service Pack 1, mine is 2.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: shaggs
Date: 2009-03-18 23:04:38

Okay, my PC (the one that's in my bedroom), has been pissing me off. [spoiler=Problems of my PC in the past]I've had it about 5 years, and as long I've had it, it's been nothing but a fucking nightmare. When I first had the XP: Home Edition (when I first got it), it suddenly had a blue screen of death, and it was like a error stop screen, but I wasn't sure what it meant, and all these numbers showed up and they scrolled down the screen then the computer restarted it's self after, and was okay for a while. So, about a while later I started having issues with it. I kept getting virus attacks, even thought I had AVG, fully up to date, Windows Defender online, and I still kept getting a virus or 3. About a while later they were gone. One night I had a problem with my music downloader LimeWire, it wasn't working properly, so I went to Download.com, and they're a good site, I've trusted them for a long time, so I was looking at their list, to see if I could get a new LimeWire, as the one I had, wasn't working properly, so I put in the search bar LimeWire, and I got results, and this one seemed new, it was called LimeWire Gold, and I was dead wrong about it. It turned out to be a virus. A bad one. It installed on my Drive C. and it was a nightmare to get rid of. I tried a new XP account, and it was still there. So I talked to a gay friend of mine's boyfriend about it and he's bit of a PC expert, like I am and he gave me this file that was to rid of the virus, so about a month later the trojan was finally gone. About a year later I started getting pop-ups, even though I didn't have Firefox, turned on and they kept appearing on my desktop, and they were porn pop-ups, the same type my old 98 computer kept getting, so about a while later I woke up around 4am, (due to my insomnia), and I went into the small games room my parents had in the house, and I turned on my PC, it loaded like it did, and all of a sudden it went to desktop and things started loading up a strange error pop-up, and I saw my start menu bar start changing white then all of a sudden a fatal error stop screen (aka Fatal Blue Screens of Death) started popping up. Then I said my to my brother that  my PC was a total ass. So, about a few weeks later they kept coming up so back then we called out a PC expert the same guy we knew who fixed my 98 before the system failure, and fixed my PC's problems, with virus attacks, and such, so he wiped my computer and started again, and it was fine for a while. So, about a while later I was playing Guild Wars with a few of my online friends, then suddenly my PC's screen went black, the monitor light was flashing (meaning it was on standby), and my PC wasn't loading. This happened about twice that night.[/spoiler] So, since I've had my PC it's been so weird. I've had one of my uncles/cousins to repair my parents PC after we had a power failure and it fucked their computer up so he took mine to get it sorted due to the fact the blue screens of death returned. Again. So, now all my PC does it crash. Not hanging like, where a lot of my programes/stuff just stops responding, and there's no viruses, no worms, no spyware, no maware, no crap. I've done scans, and nothing is found. My PC is slow (as always) and drives me nuts. What do  you guys think? I'm out of ideas, yet I'm meant to know about a PC, yet this is puzzling me. I know I need to remove the system files from my Drive E, cause they're only copies where the original copies are on C. So, what do you lot think? At the moment my PC was upgraded into Windows XP: Professional Edition, as when I first got it, it was Home Edition, where my parents is Service Pack 1, mine is 2.

Weird, maybe it's the pc manufacturer, what kind
of PC do you have?

Re: Not normal

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-19 01:10:25
Try doing scans with Super anti spyware.
It may detect things that your others didn't detect.
No anti malware program is perfect, even the best.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-19 01:26:56
It's a silver tower, that I've had for along time and it's pissed me off. I'm on it now, since my laptop is in the other room. I have heard about hidden problems, and this FinallyFast.co.uk, has been shown on TV over here and it says about hidden errors when there's nothing wrong with the system its self, so I'm gonna have to see if I can find it but sometimes my Drive C can't read a CD. I've also noticed that when I try and install Avast back onto Drive C, it keeps saying error, so I tried it on E, and it was fine. AVG takes ages to scan my system, so now I'm awake again, I'll let it run to see if there's a virus that got on here while my PC has been shut down for 30 days, when my parents monitor died. My PC's system:

System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

Computer:
AMD Sempron™ (2800)+ 2.GHz, 512 of RAM.

The memory to is it low yet again, yet I can't buy RAM here, it's too expensive, plus I keep getting access dined when I try and remove the system files on E. I swear computer technology these days, suck! There has not been one computer (only my laptop) that hasn't died on me hasn't had so many deaths from the Blue Screens of Death. When AVG finishes, I'll post the results.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-19 01:48:27
Trust me, finallyfast.com/finalyfast.co.uk hold viruses.
Also, can you download service pack 3?

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-19 02:03:21
I'm not sure if my computer would be able to handle it. I'm not sure, it has 2 updates, ready so I'll check them out.

Edit: Okay, I've downloaded Service Pack 3, successfully, and my system has been upgraded to Service Pack 3. My scan results are:

Infection: Trojan Horse Agent.AWMJ
Path: E:\WINDOWS\Temp\Install_IGB_.exe
Infection: Trojan Horse BHO.CMP E: (it came from one of my files) sfg800e.exe

I can't say more since I can't remember how to get a little box to appear to say information about it. I did it before I had to restart due to a problem with my Internet connection.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-19 14:07:21
You are n the road to recovery…
Sort of.
Agent is a general classification of a peice of malware. It can be anything. the things after the dot declare exactly what virus it is.
I'm going to look it up…
Edit:There is no info about that particual piece of malware… not even on Mcafee's site!
The best thing I can tell you if to post a highjack this log here(run trend micro highjack this, and post the log here).

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-19 18:27:07
I didn't quite get that. I'm gonna re-instail Avast on my Drive E, again since last time my PC had to be an ass and crashed, last time. Avast scans the memory, as well as the files of the PC, so I'll post what Avast finds, when it finishes its scan.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-20 00:15:30
It will post all of the startup entrys and the browser helper objects and the likes.
It helps determine if you have malware, and if so, what.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-20 01:09:50
I really fucking hate this damn computer. Argh! Avast won't install properly on Drive E, and still keeping an error in Drive C. Now my Windows Media Player, isn't working.

Edit: I might be infected with Conficker, System Restore, isn't loading Windows Media Player is still not working, Task Manager, and Windows Defender are still okay.

Edit 2: I keep getting this when it loads:

[IMG]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj291/TeamRocketMutouYami/BlankSystemRestoreScreen.png[/img]

I dunno what to do. This all started with my Windows Media Player wouldn't load, now System Restore, won't either. *Sighs*

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Axaj
Date: 2009-03-20 19:58:46
I'd ditch windows and get linux (preferably ubuntu).

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-20 20:04:55
I have no money. This useless PC has all my songs, on here. I can't send them to my laptop in case whatever is infecting my PC might damage my laptop as well.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Axaj
Date: 2009-03-20 20:19:14
Linux is free.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2009-03-20 20:23:26
I still have my laptop, and that is perfectly fine. I've got AVG scanning to see if it can find a threat on my PC. I would of gotten Lunix, years ago but never had the money to buy a Lunix computer. I dunno if the UK has any.

Re: Not normal

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-20 21:51:35
Download super antispyware and scan with it!