Windows - no disk error

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This does not sound like malware. It just sounds like something is remembering the last drive accessed which may have been a removable drive.

If you really want to check for malware you need to follow the steps below before posting HijackThis log which do not provide sufficient information by themselves on a PC's malware status. However, it sound to me like you are in the wrong forum.

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

• Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
• Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
• Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

• After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis
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• When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too (these scans are covered in steps 6 & 7 of the READ & RUN ME sticky)
  • Bitdefender
  • Panda Scan
  • HijackThis

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But you did not run all the steps in the READ & RUN ME and that is why I posted the request for you to follow those steps. Here is a list of what you did not do:

• did not run Windows Defender
• did not run Bitdefender
• did not attach the Bitdefender log as requested
• did not run PandaActiveScan
• did not attach the PandaActiveScan log as requested
• did not follow the instructions in step 7 of the READ ME and as a result you have HijackThis installed here:

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\My Documents\My Received Files\HijackThis.exe

That is exactly where step 7 specifies not to install it.


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Please complete the steps you have not run and then attach the three requested logs as indicated in message # 2. Your HijackThis log does not show any problems which does not necessarily mean you are clean. HijackThis is not a malware scanner. It is just a tool that has been designed to to display a current running process list and also a variety of registry keys. It does not display all possible infected registry keys or the many thousands of possible infected files or folders that could be on your system. This is the reason why the READ & RUN ME is performed. Even then there still could be hidden malware! Malware changes many times daily. It is constant learrning process to determine what new tricks they are using and we have many other scans and tools we use to hunt things down. Doing the READ & RUN ME first gets us into a known status to work from and gives us the ability to focus on what the next step may need to be.

How do you know it is not a Windows popup? It sounds like one to me. Have you tried cleaning out the history of last things open in the applications that you are trying to run? Or at least try opening a bunch of things that are on a local drive (something always accessible). After opening many local files, you would potentially remove the history of access to a removable drive which is what your problem sounds like.

 

All we ask users to do is get a log from HijackThis. We will do all the rest. HijackThis does not do anything else on its own. We warn you so that you will not experiment on your own. Without having a HijackThis log AFTER all the other steps are run, we would not be able to complete the process of removing all malware.


So as I suspected in my first message, this was not a malware problem.

You should howver take a look at the below link:

How to Protect yourself from malware!