Wont boot blues!

Short story:
Got a virus.....eventually removed the virus. Went to bed with the PC running, woke up with the pc in a never ending cycle. Boot fails and goes to failed start up selection screen. No matter what selection is made, safe mode, last known, or normal, the same thing happens....fails and kicks back to the selection screen.


Long Story:
Was awakened Saturday morning by my wife saying the computer was acting funny.....checked it out....was that fake antivirus thing....Internet Security 2010.

ESET didn't detect it(hadn't updated for about 2 months because it was expired), trend micro froze during an online scan after finding and deleting 5 infected files, Avast was a joke, Malware Bytes found and deleted 26 infected files. Uninstalled All antivirus then installed, updated, and ran Panda Antivirus Pro 2010. Everything seemed good.

Rebooted multiple times just for shits and giggles, then used the pc with no problems for about 3 hours. Left the PC running and went to bed.

Woke up the next morning with the computer rebooting/failing over and over again.

Ran virus scan from Panda bootable cd....no infections found.

Booted with bootable recovery console disc, used bood config, check disk, fixboot, and fix master boot record......used the proper commands but still the same result.


So now I don't know what to try next.....could someone point me in the correct direction?

XP Home SP3
Sony VAIO PCV-rs720g

For the past couple of months either my hard drive, or a fan, has been intermittently noisy, but I'm not convinced that my HD has failed since I'm able to access with bootable antivirus and recovery console.

Thanks for any info

 

Hi there stryfe obviously you have become infected, so i suggest you click on this link http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407 and then follow all the instructions, then post the logs asked for into the malware forum, along with a full explanation of what you where doing when this occured as you have done so here, after you do that please be patient, as the malware fighters do get busy, but will get round to sorting you out, also if there is anything that dosen't work when following the instructions, don't worry just keep going, and don't be afraid to ask questions no matter how trivial, everybodys here to help, but make sure you follow the instructions properly i:e read them very carefully.

Good Luck Rusty !

P.S The thing is you may have ran loads of scans, but there is most probably something there that the scans you ran has missed, i:e rootkits or invalid registry entries !

 

rustyjack,

Thanks for pointing me to thread that will be useful in the future...


unfortunately, I don't see how it can help in my situation. My computer doesn't boot into normal or safe mode, so I'm unable to run any of these tests/scans/fixes.

Thanks for trying to help though.