SpyBot

Discussion in 'Software' started by tommy2k8, Jul 24, 2008.

  1. tommy2k8

    tommy2k8 Private First Class

    When I run Spybot, it gets to the part where it looks for a piece of spyware called 'virtumonde.dll' and then hangs. Why doies it do this? Curiously, it happens in Safe Mode too.
    The VundoFix tool detects nothing; but why does it hang?

    Windows XP SP2
    512MB
    SpyBot 1.6.0
    AVG 8
    Windows Firewall
     
  2. akhilles

    akhilles First Sergeant

    Update AVG & do a full scan.
     
  3. tommy2k8

    tommy2k8 Private First Class

    I haven't reinstalled it yet, but I did make sure that everything was immunized.
    AVG found 24 pieces of spyware and removed them; when I turned on this morning, I got an 'invalid system disk' message. There is no floppy or the CD in the drives. The BIOS is fine, any clues?
    Good news is the computer has been backed up!
     
  4. akhilles

    akhilles First Sergeant

    Where exactly does it say 'invalid system disk'?
     
  5. scott_hayes89

    scott_hayes89 Corporal

    your hard drive could be gitten bad.what did you back it up with? another hard drive or cd..try to turn off the computer for about 10 seconds then turn it back on.
     
  6. tommy2k8

    tommy2k8 Private First Class

    It says 'Invalid system disk' when I boot the system up for the first time. The screen immediately before the Windows startup screen
     
  7. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

  8. tommy2k8

    tommy2k8 Private First Class

    In the end, I booted it up with the Linux System Rescue CD, and discovered that the hard disk had failed!
    So I purchased a new disk from Dabs (Seagate 160GB SATA) and I'm reinstalling Windows. The particular disk I got needed a SATA driver from a floppy, so I downloaded that (motherboard: ABit V17). However, after formatting with NTFS on the current partition (not a new one), it prompted me to insert a VIA RAID Combo Driver. Why is this? I'm not going to use RAID!
     
  9. tommy2k8

    tommy2k8 Private First Class

    Just to let you know I've solved it, what I was doing is:
    I downloaded the drivers and extracted them
    downloaded the driver folder to a floppy
    it couldn't find txtsetup.oem because they were in a folder, so I went into the folder, and copied the individual files, and it worked!
     

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