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My computer is breaking... again PART II
Raneados
police apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
police apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
alright my computer is quite old by computer standards. About 6 years. It's been gutted, hit by lighting, dropped off chairs, the works
but I need it to live because I can't afford a new one
I recently got infected with the Antivirus Live thing, so i decided I might as well take it out as soon as I was aware it had installed itself
I followed the instructions, malwarebytes took care of it I think
I hope so, I can't update mawarebytes because of Error Code 732 (12029, 0). But that's a different topic I think
and right now I can only boot in Safe mode with networking. Trying to get into regular mode makes the computer load normally uup until the XP screen with that loading bar, then it flashes a bluescreen for about a millionth of a second and then the computer clicks a little and it restarts. I've managed to catch the word "corrupted" on the blue screen
I'm not tech savvy whatsoever but I messed around with starting it in different ways like a fucking chimp and I found out that, if I started it in safe mode with networking, it runs down the list of (processes?) it's running to start, and at the bottom it says like "press ESC to stop loading SPTD"
pressing escape and cancelling this lets me boot up, letting it go makes the computer click and restart again
googling and wikipediaing around a little it says that SPTD is part of daemontools? Did it get corrupt and is borking my computer? I was going to uninstall it then and there forever but I might as well ask before doing anything I can't take back.
help me I'm too poor to buy a new computer
and I don't have TV so I'll be stuck reading books all day every day
but I need it to live because I can't afford a new one
I recently got infected with the Antivirus Live thing, so i decided I might as well take it out as soon as I was aware it had installed itself
I followed the instructions, malwarebytes took care of it I think
I hope so, I can't update mawarebytes because of Error Code 732 (12029, 0). But that's a different topic I think
and right now I can only boot in Safe mode with networking. Trying to get into regular mode makes the computer load normally uup until the XP screen with that loading bar, then it flashes a bluescreen for about a millionth of a second and then the computer clicks a little and it restarts. I've managed to catch the word "corrupted" on the blue screen
I'm not tech savvy whatsoever but I messed around with starting it in different ways like a fucking chimp and I found out that, if I started it in safe mode with networking, it runs down the list of (processes?) it's running to start, and at the bottom it says like "press ESC to stop loading SPTD"
pressing escape and cancelling this lets me boot up, letting it go makes the computer click and restart again
googling and wikipediaing around a little it says that SPTD is part of daemontools? Did it get corrupt and is borking my computer? I was going to uninstall it then and there forever but I might as well ask before doing anything I can't take back.
help me I'm too poor to buy a new computer
and I don't have TV so I'll be stuck reading books all day every day
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the real problem still applies
good day for everything to happen
but man that is a lot of CDs and time
again
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If you can't even boot that's the best course of action.
This time around get a secure browser, (Chrome, firefox +noscript), AVG, spywareblaster, all that stuff.
All that is like the trojan condoms of the computing world.
Oh, and you'd likely spend and already have spent more time trying to fix this than it would take to backup, nuke, restore. Plus you get the added benefit of shiny new speed with a reformat.
then make yourself a nice restore CD with windows + updates (slipstream via nlite) to make the process easier in the futue
and from now on, run an antivirus ALWAYS (Avast! is FREE), and don't download files from shady places
last night my computer shit itself even more. It started not loading up at all, it would hang up on the drivers and .sys loading list and just fart forever
that's why I haven't been around for like a day
I cried a little, fought with it a little and then put in my windows disk in to go for a complete reformat.
I ran through the recovery thing just for shits and giggles, if it managed to salvage it, hey that's all gravy
and it did!
look at me all up and running!
It's not the complete reformat time I'm worrying about. I'd lose literally gigs and gigs of things that are nigh-on irreplaceable (Maybe Rane should learn to back up his stuff on CDs and drives. Well yes I should but that is money I don't have)
I have firefox. Fully up to date I thought. I never use anything else. It came though and installed itself while I was visiting a webpage (not even a bad webpage or porn or anything, just a webpage then BAM YOU HAVE A VIRUS BUY OUR SHIT)
I managed to get that off it last night before the complete fuckdeath
blah blah computer software hardware issue
if you've added any new components check them (I haven't)
the BSOD technical info:
***STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xf78c6380, 0xf78c607c, 0x89d8e805)
noooo
I think i have a restore CD with windows and service pack 2 (slipwhat via what?)
apparently I don't have an antivirus running.... weird
noo I can't I have too much information
which apparently I need to export elsewhere just in case this computer decides to bite the big one soon. I should look into external hard drives but again, that's cash I don't have
and I didn't download anything! it just popped up through websurfing! not even shady websites!
I BELIEVE when it came up, I got some window that pooped up with RUNTIME ERROR: 0 or something
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just installed itself on my computer, I didn't download anything
Any of the rogue antivirus/fraudware tools have a habbit of hanging out in your temp files for a little while before coming active. It's a distinct possibility the site you were browsing was compromised, but unless you had no AV software at all, it likely wasn't the particular site you were on when it popped up that was the culprit.
have you heard the expression "playing with fire"?
The way these fakealert Stupid-Not-Real AntiVirus things work is that they hide in ads on legitimate webpages. What you're seeing when it says "YOU'RE INFECTED! BUY OUR SHIT!" Is just a fake Javascript applet that's designed to look like a real Windows interface. If you were, say, using OS X and visited the same webpage, you'd get exactly the same thing. It'd look like a Windows program telling you you were infected. It's not a program - just a mockup webpage.
The hell of it is, there's no way to close that webpage conventionally without downloading the virus. Hitting cancel, or the red X in the corner just initiates the download - Those aren't actually buttons anyway. They're just Javascript fakes that initiate the download. How the software gets launched is another thing entirely. I'm inclined to say that it's probably exploiting a security hole somewhere, because otherwise you'd have to agree to run the program explicitly, or else be fooled into running it.
So, if it ever happens again: Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, and nuke your browser immediately. The initial 'scanning' screen is just a fake out, so killing the browser should prevent it from doing anything nasty. It might get something in the cache, but a MBAM scan will filter that out afterward.
Also: Always make sure Windows is up to date, and just as important, that you browser is up to date. These fake pieces of crap actually scan for old versions to exploit security holes. A really, really good thing to do is some kind of script blocking, as well. If you've got Javascript blocked, then the attack can't even launch most of the time.
well i thought I was but apparently I forgot to install them
and if you can tell me the cheapest way to back up all said data that would be peaches
You do realize how ridiculously inexpensive USB drives are, don't you? Blank CDs and DVDs aren't exactly going to bankrupt you either.
These really don't tell you that much, and a BSOD on startup can be a huge variety of things.
The most likely case, I think, is a corrupted driver or system file as a result of malware.
If you can just find your OS disk you might be able to run a repair operation. I've had BSOD's in the past that were temporarily relieved by a repair operation.
I think?
so now it's running smoother
and working
so semi-fixed I suppose
You have to pay for it, but there isn't much in the way of legit data backup you won't have to pay for.
I think you can buy up to 50 gigs of space for vital files.
There are 4gb drives for 13 bucks a pop. Don't come much cheaper than that.
I have absolutely no idea where you're shopping, but $65 will get you a 32 gig USB drive. 16 gigs are only around $30. What exactly are you backing up that you need more than that?
where is this? i checked overstock and they have 16 gig flash drives for 45 dollars
where can I get a 16 gig for 30 dollars I will buy that tonight
Personally I'd go with an external hard drive for backing stuff up, just for the capacity. I got a 500 gig drive for $100 as Best Buy a year ago and haven't filled it up yet.
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1262368640/ref=sr_kk_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=usb%2016gb
http://www.macmall.com/p/product~dpno~7532251~pdp.ejchfbh;jsessionid=BBE655495ADD93568FD65CB73D85B7FF
the only problem is that it's easy to backup a virus as well
If, next time you format your drive, you do so with a 5GB Ubuntu partition next to your Windows partition, you will always have an (essentially) virus immune way to access the internet, and to rescue files from the toasted file structure on the other partition if this should happen again.
And you can also use that partition for everything secure- that way if you get a keylogger it won't nab your credit card number.
All you need is a CD and about 10 minutes.
computer is running okay, I'm trying to budget an external hard drive so progress on that
now my monitor is shitting itself, hooray!
it's an LCD
for a while whenever I start up my computer after a while of inactivity, I turn on the power strip, then computer and monitor. My monitor's power light will slowwwwly flicker on and off.
Today i started it up and it did it forever. After i turned it on and off a few times it would turn on, then immediately say GOING TO SLEEP on the screen and go into sleep/standby mode.
I'm hesitant to buy another fucking thing, so any clue what can fix this other than a new monitor ($$)