Magical Virus? Skilled user - Unique problem.

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Conflicted83, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. Conflicted83

    Conflicted83 Private E-2

    Ok, this could be long winded, please bear with me.

    Bear in mind that i've dealt with viruses before, and have built my own rig, i'm as good as anybody with PC's.

    Recently my computer began acting strangely. Games ran slow, etc. After that multiple windows would open without any command and my computer would restart itself. I thought, no big deal, i've got some malware of some kind, just run a scan and i'll be fine. Ran AVG, spybot, nothing found. Downloaded Kaspersky, ran it, nothing found. Used a tool my friend suggested called SmitRem which requires safe mode. Didn't help. Soon it got so bad that there was only seconds before the OS would restart upon loading. I still didnt freak out because i've had this problem before.

    I decided to reinstall my OS, except i couldnt, because my HD was running media center XP from the dell i ripped it out of, and the Ctrl+F11 command wouldn't work because the new Asus board i had it in wouldnt recognize the command.

    So i took the HD out of the computer and put in a Barracuda 500GB hd i bought. Installed vista on it. To my absolute surprise upon loading it up, THE COMPUTER EXHIBITED the exact same problems it was having before! i'd click anything, and multiple windows would open... they'd flicker alot, and then something i didn't click on would open, then eventually it shut itself down.
    Only... it stopped turning on. The Computer turns on and makes noise, but the BIOS won't boot and it just sits there with the fans spinning.

    It gets worse... I had a secondary hd, a 250 GB barracuda, with the 80 GB i took from my old Dell. I gave it to my friend and he tried to format the 250 gb HD for me, wipe it clean. Now his computer is screwed, won't load.

    It gets even worse...

    My stepdad had an old computer laying around, a dimension 4100. I figured, "What the hell, i'll use it to surf the web and play stupid flash games until i can fix mine." His didn't even have an ethernet slot, so i used an old firewire cable to hook it to the cable modem, and i took my Turtle Beach Riviera sound card out of my broken PC to replace his broken sound card in his.

    When i loaded it up (with my keyboard, monitor, and mouse) it did EXACTLY the same thing! Even shut itself off after a while. Now its infected too. I feel terrible raping both my best friends computer (which was sweet, quad core, 9800GT SLI, like 8 Gigs of ram) and my stepdads, and mine's broken too!

    Please tell me something like this has happened before and can be fixed without completely rebuilding my computer.
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Did this really occur just out of no where? Was any new hardware or software just recently installed? Where had you been surfing and what was being downloaded? Any torrent or P2P downloaders being used?

    Are you saying you have had this exact problem before or are you saying something different. If you had the exact problem before what did you do to fix it last time and what makes you so sure the problem is malware especially if no scanners are detecting anything?

    So you did not mean you were trying to reinstall. You meant you were trying to restore it to the factory ship state using the recovery partition?

    Did you use an original Vista DVD or was it a copy? And did you only install just Vista and nothing else when the problems began again? Or had you installed any other software, especially anything from backups?

    Have you considered that there could be a BIOS infection? Do you have the ability to reflash your BIOS?

    This actually sounds more like hardware issues then malware especially if you cannot even get into the BIOS. Did you try removing all peripheral cards and even unplug the hard disks, CD/DVD drives etc to see if you could get into the BIOS? This would check to see if a piece of hardware was causing a problem. In fact, have you tested your RAM to make sure they are OK?

    Did he do anything other than trying to format it? Did you try to boot from it at all if it had a bootable partition? Did you try to copy/backup or run any files from it? Was it only in his system as a slave drive and is his system properly protected?

    Is this the only thing from your original PC that was plugged in? Perhaps my question earlier about a BIOS infection even sounds more possibly since there have been infections that could get themselves into any peripherals that have flashable hardware on them.

    Not that I have seen and if it really is an infection that has gotten into all your hardware, you will need new hardware unless you can reprogram the chips without running Windows or booting your BIOS. If you even plug in just one of your previous peripheral cards into your PC as you rebuild it, you could just start the cycle over again.
     

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