Save me DSF, you're my only hope

[gallow737]

No, this isn't a Star Wars thread, and no you're not technically my only hope, but I have a serious computer problem that needs solving and thought I might ask the bright computer minds at the ol DSF. This will be a long thread, for I will explain in detail what happened.


I was in the process of downloading movies for my "I'm gonna download every movie imaginable" project. Well, I was downloading Ghostbusters and everything was going smoothly. I believe it was on onedll.com or something like that. Well I left the window open because I think it had a password so I usually leave the page open and open a new tab and start browsing for when i need the password for extraction. Well, I was just browsing some baseball websites and then all of a sudden I get hit with about 4 different pop ups about virus protection. No biggie, it happens. I try and close them out, no dice. I get one of thosae fucker that looks like an error message, it doesn't close out.

So at this point I try and open up the task manager and close out all the firefox processes. I'll cut my losses on Ghostbusters, it's not going anywhere. Well when I hit alt+ctrl+del a message comes up that says "Task Manager has been disabled"

And then my virus protector pops up and says I got like 15 trojan viruses and I'm thinking it's another popup trying to trick me into hitting as button that will bring more popups, so at this point, I just turn the computer off and restart thinking it's just a douchey website.

Well when it restarted checkdisk started and it went berserk, saying it had to delete like a couple hundred corrupted files and shit. Then when windows finally started up, and this is the big problem I'm having, when I attempt to log onto my user (running Windows XP btw), it will show the desktop background for about 10 seconds and play the intro music, but nothing will pop up and then it will log off automatically and go back to the home page wherwe the logon users are. And everytime you try and log on again it does the same thing, except instead of 10 seconds, it's instantaneous when it logs off.

So I try and reboot into safe mode, right? Wrong, when I try it tells me I need the system restore disk in order to do that, which i don't have.

So in conclusion, I can't log on to my computer and I can't reboot in safe mode. My questions are...

1) Does anyone recognize what the fuck is wrong?
2) Any idea how I go about fixing this?

I really need this because I do video editing on my computer and I just recently got a freelance video editing gig. Luckily I can get around that, but it's not just that, I had several gigs of web design files, portfolio history, etc... also all my mp3's... also a whole shit ton of movies I had yet to transfer to my external HD..... also a library of all my old short films and videos...... 30 gigs of porn.

You know... anything digital that's ever meant anything to me in the last 5 years is currently in limbo.

So yeah, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. I typed this out on my netbook

[mr.brownfella]

try going back to you last good back up...F8 in the loading screen instead of F2...then delete the files you think are giving you the trouble..if that does not work..I do not Known what to tell you....

[gallow737]

i don't have a backup utility that i know of. F8 is the key that brings up the safe mode option, which doesn't work

[Predator24]

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Dude, all I can think would be trying to get into safe mode. Try searching for a board that specializes in this stuff and once you and you will get squared away, purchace something like carbonite so if it was all backed up, you could just restore all of your files to another computer.

I used it when I changed to a new laptop and got all my files, movies, pics back within a couple days.

Just sayin.....

Take your tower out into the driveway and stomp on it.

[gimmebeer]

you can try to plug the hd into another pc, backup the files you need, and then just do a clean install

I just fixed this exact problem on a neighbors PC. she had the antivirus popup shit, and when i removed it, the PC would no longer boot. no safe mode either. so, i couldnt restore. windows was missing files it needed to boot properly. ended up using "MegaBoot CD", and WinPE, to log on, and do a system restore. once that was done, i was able to back up her shit and re-install windows.

so, find yourself a copy of WinPE

[KrakeN]

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If you don't want to risk your data, this is what I'd do. Find a buddy with a big-ass hard-drive and copy your files over.

Once done, take it out to the driveway and hit it with a hammer.

[MrGoutHimself]

Sounds like the Antivirus 2009/2010 variant. There are explicit steps you can take to remove it that I've used many times, even here at work. Visit this site and follow the steps. It uses a command prompt to disable the AV2010 process and then MWB removes it. Works pretty well, but I also installed MSSE at the same time.

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Good luck, man, if you need any help with it, let me know.
-SRD

[el_victorino]

I got hit with this or a similar virus a couple months ago and after exhausting the little that I knew I ended up calling our tech guy who spent several hours on it before giving up, xferring the data I needed, then wiping the drive and reinstalling everything. It's a nasty one, obviously.