Be wary of some rogue virus that claims to be a Win7 Security Program. I’ve gotten rid of the easier ones but this virus buried itself deep in my registry and completely fucked it to hell. All my data and HD is fried. Damn computer won’t even start. So until we come up with enough money to buy a new computer my PC gaming days are over. Good thing the PS2 still works. Well I’m still able to get SOME of my pysical memory from the HD but I’d need to buy an external…anyway…if anyone knows where to get good computers for decent prices don’t hesitate to let me know…
LOL, just format the hdd.
How do you know it’s fried? Does it post?
I highly doubt some malware has physically damaged your components.
If it is the same one my wife unwittingly installed on my PC recently(windows defender), you can recover from it. It would not allow me to download anything, run anti virus etc… try this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-windows-pc-defender The one I had got into my rundll32.
a cool hack to get rid of it is to enter your credit card number and ssn into the box provided
^this
Just reformat.
gentoo
Buy a brand new computer because of a virus? Brilliant!
These x 1,000,000. And then don’t download random crap :fffuuu: Then again, as the virus will have damaged the wires in your BIOS I’ll be happy to take the machine off your hands for a small price 
Like what Andrew Hussie pointed out.
PC owners have a lot to learn from farmers. If one animal in your flock gets sick just kill it and get another one or move on or whatever rather than spending money on trying to get it better.
If your computer gets a virus or breaks fuck it just buy a new one.
Ahem. EVERYTHING got dumped. All my physical memory. None of the .exe’s work. I’m using periods instead of commas. My cousins drew on the tower and spilled an unidentified liquid in the hard drive. Despite what I said it WILL turn on and the only working program is the command prompt. If I can format it from just that DO FRIGGIN’ TELL! Hopefully the liquid can be solved with rice assuming its water…anyway…someone please tell me how to fix my hunk-o-shit. Also, the name of the virus is Windows 7 Anti-virus 2011.
I’m using a cheapshit Vaio laptop. Its also my father’s…
Google “reformat broken computer” or something you should be able to find a tutorial.
Wait what? That’s not right at all. Unlike the farmer’s cow, a computer is made up of independent parts and one part of the computer is broken or “sick” doesn’t mean the rest of the computer is going to have problems. That philosophy only works for people with insane amounts of money who would rather pay 1000 dollars than spend a couple hours fixing their computer.
POST as in Power On Self Test, not “post” a reply to a thread. But as you’ve said you can get in to a certain degree then yes, it POSTs.
If if thats fubar then formatting is the only way, and you can’t format it with Windows running anyway (how can it format itself?). What we’re referring to is inserting a Windows install disc, you have the option of wiping and re-partitioning the drives during the install. The install handles the formatting for you, however you will of course lose everything on the drive. Its an incredibly simple process, and the Windows 7 (and Vista) install packages provide you with a full on GUI so its even easier to follow.
If its recently had liquid spilled on it, make sure it dries FULLY before attempting to supply power to the system. If its just water it should be ok, anything sugary could leave a sticky mess however.
garrthbarrttinn - I think Trigger_Proximity was being sarcastic (I mean I hope :fffuuu 
Thanks mate. Yours is one of the few un-smartass non-sarcastic comments that have actually helped. Well I’ll see if I can get any data off the HDD then I’ll format it. Thanks bro.
If its the virus I’m thinking of it’ll boot, but what its done is changed the registry to look at the virus’ exe as the shell, not explorer.exe. So, when it boots up and displays the virus screen, press ctrl+alt+del, select RUN and type in explorer.exe.
This’ll start the Windows “shell” and give you access to your files, copy any important things to somewhere safe then format the machine. I think the virus resides in the users documents area, so don’t copy the entire directory, only the files you need.
If your HDD dies, your whole computer gets broken!
Seriously, “buy a new computer”, you’re joking right?
Bet you don’t even know what reformat is, and you’re just some casual PC user that doesn’t know how a PC works
(Offensive post? Getting rid of a virus should be something every computer user should know, and saying the whole computer gets broken when it’s only the HDD, is just…)
Slightly offensive, just because he uses a PC doesn’t mean he should know all the ins-and-outs. Thats like saying when you fly you should know how to pilot the plane. Just because you use the PC doesn’t mean you should know how to operate it entirely.
But the HDD thing, yeah bud I’m afraid that is a bit OTT 
I was posting pretty late last night, but another thing you could do is buy a new HDD and install Windows (or Linux, but it seems you’d be better off with Windows 
), using the bust one as a 2nd drive. Once its all ok, copy ONLY NON-EXECUTABLE FILES from the 2nd drive, then format it completely.
That explorer.exe thing worked when one of the users here at work got the virus (or a very similar one). The file is based in C:\Windows.
So options are:
- Boot into Windows, start explorer.exe, copy all files then format
- Format and lose everything
- Buy a new HDD, install Windows onto the new one, use old as 2nd drive. Copy NEEDED files across only (i.e. My Documents, Steam games). Format 2nd drive.
Personally I use Microsoft Security Essentials and I’ve never had any problems. Performance and security wise Kaspersky was the best I’ve ever used, however you can’t get that version anymore 
We use AVG at work and I hate it with a passion.
For home use, MSE is perfect. Just use a bit of common sense when on the internet anyway.
And don’t download random crap. It should be common sense now that any popup saying you have a virus, that you’re the 10,000th visitor or there are errors on your machine SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
@fx. Don’t be too harsh to the guy. EVerybody starts somewhere and the best way to learn how to fix a problem is to run into the problem. Who’s going to google “How to fix a virus” before they have a virus?