the_player
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Hello,
My PC does not boot up. The monitor remains OFF. Also there is no flash on my hard disk LED. The keyboard gets detected though.
I suspect it to be a virus because there is no hardware fault (hardware examination has been done!). I think its a boot sector virus.
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED
While surfing the net my McAffe antivirus 8.0 showed a trojan horse on my System32/ folder in my C: drive ; it asked me to remove it , I pressed OK.
Then after a day my anti-virus got corrpted ; I was not able to scan any file for viruses , also my antivirus was shown as an unrecognisable .exe file .
When I used to scan a file for viruses , nothing used to happen.
The next day I tried to reinstall my McAffee 8.0 , but even after doing so my antivirus remained unrecognisable . So I figured out that it would not be safe to search the net.
I did a clean install(i.e. after formatting my drive C
of Windows XP , but certain files refused to get installed. After the installation , the following things from XP were missing:
> System restore
> Defragmentation
> Internet explorer
> Windows Media Player
But still my games (Counterstrike Condition zero & GTA San Andreas) were working fine.I installed even DirectX 9.0c for my games (I did not install antivirus fearing that the virus is still there in system)
Next , I installed Windows Media Player 10 & then played counterstrike. Then suddenly my system restarted but did not boot up (It did not even show the POST bootup screen ) , my system hanged , nothing on my screen , and no indication of any boot progress . So I shutdown manually .
Then I turned it ON after some time. My PC booted up , and disk checking was done by XP and it said that "C:\Documents & settings\.....\Windows Media Player 10\...\wmp.xml is invalid " repairing....... , then XP got loaded and everything started . Then I successfully shutdown from my OS (XP) . Shutdown happened normally.
That was yesterday , today when I turn ON my PC , only the Keyboard LED glow only once . No POST screen on the screen , no harddisk LED glowing , screen is blank , power of system is ON , therefore no XP loading .
OBSERVATION
My system SMPS's (power supply) fan runs , system fan also runs , so no hardware has gone 'kaput' . Even my Processors fan works very well.
It was only after installing WMP 10 did the above happen ; more specifically due to that trojan horse described earlier.
I suspect this is the virus's deed.
Someone please suggest me a solution.
Thank you for reading my problem.
My PC does not boot up. The monitor remains OFF. Also there is no flash on my hard disk LED. The keyboard gets detected though.
I suspect it to be a virus because there is no hardware fault (hardware examination has been done!). I think its a boot sector virus.
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED
While surfing the net my McAffe antivirus 8.0 showed a trojan horse on my System32/ folder in my C: drive ; it asked me to remove it , I pressed OK.
Then after a day my anti-virus got corrpted ; I was not able to scan any file for viruses , also my antivirus was shown as an unrecognisable .exe file .
When I used to scan a file for viruses , nothing used to happen.
The next day I tried to reinstall my McAffee 8.0 , but even after doing so my antivirus remained unrecognisable . So I figured out that it would not be safe to search the net.
I did a clean install(i.e. after formatting my drive C
of Windows XP , but certain files refused to get installed. After the installation , the following things from XP were missing:> System restore
> Defragmentation
> Internet explorer
> Windows Media Player
But still my games (Counterstrike Condition zero & GTA San Andreas) were working fine.I installed even DirectX 9.0c for my games (I did not install antivirus fearing that the virus is still there in system)
Next , I installed Windows Media Player 10 & then played counterstrike. Then suddenly my system restarted but did not boot up (It did not even show the POST bootup screen ) , my system hanged , nothing on my screen , and no indication of any boot progress . So I shutdown manually .
Then I turned it ON after some time. My PC booted up , and disk checking was done by XP and it said that "C:\Documents & settings\.....\Windows Media Player 10\...\wmp.xml is invalid " repairing....... , then XP got loaded and everything started . Then I successfully shutdown from my OS (XP) . Shutdown happened normally.
That was yesterday , today when I turn ON my PC , only the Keyboard LED glow only once . No POST screen on the screen , no harddisk LED glowing , screen is blank , power of system is ON , therefore no XP loading .
OBSERVATION
My system SMPS's (power supply) fan runs , system fan also runs , so no hardware has gone 'kaput' . Even my Processors fan works very well.
It was only after installing WMP 10 did the above happen ; more specifically due to that trojan horse described earlier.
I suspect this is the virus's deed.
Someone please suggest me a solution.
Thank you for reading my problem.
