toxic.zen Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I have had a few in my computing lifetime, but this last one was pretty fierce! While i was away Lyn casually opened an e-mail from what she thought was a classmate w/attachment before realizing something was fishy... at that point it was to late. She deleted the e-mail and went about business as usual. Later that evening she put it on hibernate for a while. She turns it on later and it begins. It takes forever to boot to main screen, when finally there it wont go online, and e-mail will not work. and then it goes into a restart cycle. she leaves it be and it hangs on a system restore screen till i get back. I return home and notice the screen and the air of injury about or computer and exclaim "baby what the hell is wrong with the computer?!" "i don't know it's just acting funny" I nod my head in disbelief and set to work. hours later after system restore gets cutoff midpoint and countless re-boots fail. I manage to get moments at a time in safe mode before the virus decides to start the re-boot cycle again. with each brief moment i am able to grab vital info i need for Lyns school projects and maps i have made for CMSF (like i said vital info!!!) after doing this for a while i tire, shut it down before it can re-boot again, and call it a night. next morning i turn it on to see if i missed any info before re-formatting. it turns on fine as if nothing happened! I'm flabbergasted but not fooled. i notice my antivirus is gone... evil bastard wanted me to surf the web and send e-mails to spread it i imagine! anyway, i grab a few more items off the computer and put in the system disk. restart and begin the wipe drive/reformat process... I swear i could almost hear its electronic scream of frustration as it was quickly transformed into zeros... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abneo3sierra Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Glad it worked, I have had the same thing happen before, but I tried one too many times to go back in for something. On the other important things you saved, that CMSF scenario is pretty good 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxic.zen Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 thanks which side did you play? and how did you do? assuimg the "Syrian base" scenario is what you refer to... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abneo3sierra Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Played the attackers, did ok, but took heavier casualties than I ever have in CMSF, at near 15%. a tactical challenge, and a good one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxic.zen Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 against a human or AI? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abneo3sierra Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Against one of my students. He is probably better than AI, but not that skillful yet, despite that I use it to teach alot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Did you discover what virus it was? The e-mail message may provide the header clue , if your wife can recall it , and if it had come from a friend it means their machine is spewing the stuff and also needs sorting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxic.zen Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 no i verer was able to get to see the bugger as it disabled my anti-virus, and the re-format obliterated it, i'll tell her to tell her classmate though. thankyou for the insight into the scenario abneo, im glad you enjoye it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoolaman Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Women! I had exactly the same thing happen once before and spent hours removing it. The worst I ever got was a boot sector virus that I eventually solved by buying a new hard drive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abneo3sierra Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 My wife is actually better on this than I am..so I can't agree hoolaman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxic.zen Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 i have never had to deal with a boot sector virus. can they actually be removed without scrapping the hard drive? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 computer virus DEFEATED! That's what they want you to think 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Boot sectors can be sanitised I believe. At worse the hard drive can be reformatted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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