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Virus that locks down whole computer


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So this virus seems to be spreading, it stayed on the HDD even after I did a reimage and a full nuke. 

Its the *****************Computer has suffered non-coverable system error

Call supportline 713-634-2494 blah blah blah etc etc************************************Any ideas on how to get rid of it? Maybe a Full nuke might do the trick? I tried reinstalling the OS to no avail
Any ideas?

 

 

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I would ask if you removed your Master boot record as well. A couple of years back it was a known fact that viruses could hide themselves in the MBR.

 

Here is the procedure if you are booting from the DVD disk and use the command prompt. It has been a while without me using any DOS recovery. This procedure is good though, I tried diskpart (without actually cleaning) and this should be it.

Usually the DVD installer asks for you to select the partition. I would clear the whole drive then recreate the partition. Again, I have not installed Windows since a while.

 

Are your drive in some kind of RAID? That might be different in that case.

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That might've worked, fingers crossed! No signs of it yet, it's barely been 24 hours so I wouldn't know yet.

Did you wipe the bios or MBR?

 

I did everything, I went and flashed a new bios, nuked it, put in a new set of windows, wiped the MBR, installed windows, and nuked it again to make sure, I'm hoping that got rid of it......

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Nice!

 

Did you lose a couple of files in the process? Or do you have a well thought back-up plan? Actually I would be pretty pissed if that happened to me.

I lost everything on it unfortunately.... on the bright side it hasn't spread so that's always a plus!

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