From: "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c a m>
| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
| news:eKqdtfByIHA.6096@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green">
>> From: "Indiana" <Indiana@discussions.microsoft.com>
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|>> Thanks david that worked like a charm!!! stupid viruses anyway!!
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>> YW
>>
>> Interesting how I am seeing a recent flurry of what appears to be variants
>> of the SubSys
>> type of Trojan.
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| I've seen two computers in the past week with problems that may be related.
| They wouldn't boot, both had blue screens with a STOP 8E. I removed the
| drives to try and copy data off prior to fixing the problem. Any Windows
| computer that tried to access these drives got the same BSOD even when the
| drive was connected via a USB adapter. Linux could see the file structure
| but not access any files. It appeared the bootsector and partition table was
| corrupted. I zeroed out sector 0 and was able to recover some data after
| that. The drives tested fine with several hd testing programs. The hardware
| on both computers checked out OK. Both customers said the last thing they
| saw was something that sounded like a typical rougue antispyware
| hijack/extortion. They fell for it and clicked on scan my computer now. On
| the next boot the problem occurred. It looks like something is trying to
| alter the partition table in an attempt to hide but failing miserably.
|
I would have used the hard disk manufacturer's diagnostic tool such as SeaTools and WDDiag.
Some adware has been known to muck with the MBR, etc.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV -
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp