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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject: My sister gave her self a virus |
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Cant boot in safe mode. Its just making the pc constantly pop up drwat32.dll failed error. CONSTANTLY, like every few seconds. Ive tried to turn off the shit it put in startup folder but it isnt working. Task manager will not launch either.
I cannot reformat this pc, and I will ignore anyone telling me to.
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| No programs will run. Im trying to find he god damn startup folder because i know what ever is in it.
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Saifallofjmr Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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drwat32.dll is to do with error reporting and it goes in C:\windows\system32\
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| mY MISTAKE, ITS DRWWIN.EXE/DRWAT32.EXE. Both are viruses.
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hcavolsdsadgadsg I'm a spammer
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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failing a repair install, suck it up and reformat.
boot into a live distro and grab whatever you want to save.
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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/ignored
I removed the drwat32 and drwwin and it stopped. Now I just have to find the cause. Now I can manuver through windows. Only thing is task manager wont launch, but i can use tuneup utilities for that.
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DamiPL Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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for Win XP(dono bout other wins)you can enable task manager through the Start>Run command
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Cryoma Member of the Year
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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So why are you even here?
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Flyte Peanuts!!!!
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure "my sister gave her self a virus" isn't code for, "I used my sisters computer because mine wasn't working, and broke her's as well"?
Do you even have a sister?
Anyways, do what slovach said.
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shitposter Newbie cheater
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Athaem wrote: | Are you sure "my sister gave her self a virus" isn't code for, "I used my sisters computer because mine wasn't working, and broke her's as well"?
Do you even have a sister?
Anyways, do what slovach said. |
"I cannot reformat this pc, and I will ignore anyone telling me to."
You're obviously blind.
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LolSalad Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| OH YEAH! wrote: | "I cannot reformat this pc, and I will ignore anyone telling me to."
You're obviously blind. |
The only reason I can think of to not reformat is to keep existing data, so slovach solved that problem for him.
| slovach wrote: | | boot into a live distro and grab whatever you want to save. |
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Problem solved already. Amazingly I didnt have to just reformat. AMAZINGLY, i could delete the virus. However the pc bsod during a chkdsk /f /r and i cannot boot safemode. Also the HDD does not appear in disk managment.
Just gotta use a partition program, move the shit, and reformat. The virus just replaced all the programs with fakes.
Edit: drive cannot be identified by partition magic.
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Zarr Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Do what slovach said.
| slovach wrote: | | boot into a live distro and grab whatever you want to save. |
Trying to partition a hard drive with a virus-fucked system is a bad idea. Boot into a live distro and move your shit there. A lot of distros come with gparted installed by default.
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elpacco Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | Problem solved already. Amazingly I didnt have to just reformat. AMAZINGLY, i could delete the virus. However the pc bsod during a chkdsk /f /r and i cannot boot safemode. Also the HDD does not appear in disk managment.
Just gotta use a partition program, move the shit, and reformat. The virus just replaced all the programs with fakes.
Edit: drive cannot be identified by partition magic. | You really shouldn't have waited for the virus to destroy everything on your disk before you decided to reformat.
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Saifallofjmr Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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drwatson is a error reporting module. Please someone tell SF and Safko to ban him from CT for a year he makes 30 topics A DAY!
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