TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems

[H Davis]

Tilman,

Your two symptoms, shutting off the AV and failure when installing Bit 
Defender sound a lot like some kind of virus. These are classic symptoms 
of an infection.

Rather than trying to clean up, it might be easier and more certain to 
wipe the boot partition and reinstall Windows as Russ suggested. If 
you've got an especially nasty vermin you'll never be sure you've really 
excised it it you use a piecemeal method.

Adaware and Spybot aren't state of the art any more. I'd suggest some of 
the online scanners that have been mentioned already.

This sounds like a nasty problem. Good luck.

H Davis

Tilman Brandl wrote:
> John,
>
>   
>> Try running online checks for Virus, Boot Sector virus, Rootkits.
>>     
>     yep - that's still my first priority and what I'm trying just now. AVG 
> today has found a Java/ByteVerify virus - I'm trying to get rid of it and 
> continue testing.
>
>   
>> Try FixBoot and/or FixMbr from Recovery Console.
>>     
>     ok, I'll check them - after finding out what they exactly will do.  ; )
>
> Thanks for your ideas
>
> Tilman
>
>
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: jonpan
>   To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>   Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:08 AM
>   Subject: Re: TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems
>
>
>   Some ideas, Tilman:
>
>   Try running online checks for Virus, Boot Sector virus, Rootkits.
>   Try FixBoot and/or FixMbr from Recovery Console.
>   Also from the Rec Console, you could run bootcfg /rebuild, but you have to
>   remove the attributes from C:\boot.ini first and then re-apply them
>   afterwards.
>   Try setting the BIOS to Safe (or Optimized) defaults.
>
>   Grüße
>
>   John
>
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
>   To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
>   Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:13 AM
>   Subject: TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems
>
>
>   Hi,
>
>   I'm not getting happy with my new PC - bought in Nov 07, applied a fresh
>   install of XP prp sp2 - since then there's trouble.
>
>   ***** Question: CAN any kind of 'standard' software (if there is such 
> thing)
>   damage my machine's HDDs ?
>
>
>   That's all I want to know just now, the rest is for the curious of you, 
> and
>   not the faint at heart ;-)
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   I'm asking the above, because I'm running into a new (or old) problem 
> nearly
>   each day.
>
>   - XP Firewall is getting set to OFF after reboot
>   - can't install different programs - last one was BitDefender
>   - machine reboots a few times each day, asks to run chkdsk afterwards and
>   sometimes finds/repairs defective entries + indices on system + program
>   partitions
>   - errors show up in taskbar: "...file xxxxxx corrupt: Run chkdsk to repair
>   .... " saw it a few times, sometimes it stopped an installation. This is 
> the
>   first time I've EVER seen those
>
>   What I've done:
>   * Ran chkdsk on all drives,
>   * Sofar I've been running AVG free with updated definitions nearly each 
> day,
>   rarely was there anything worth mentioning, and what was found were mostly
>   old finactive files somewhere stored away in a .zip or such.
>
>   A while ago I had lots of reboots, which stopped after I tweaked a
>   timings-setting in Bios (w/o really knowing WHAT to tweak)
>
>   In the works:
>   Currently I'm running a thorough check with adaware - a first smart scan
>   only found 2 old favorites, marked as malware (removed it) and the usual
>   collection of tracking cookies (left them)
>
>   Will do more checks, if I can install another antivirus program.
>
>   I really wónder if this all is normal windows trouble, a 3rd-party 
> software
>   thing (any drivers...) or actually hardware related, like my old Sata-HDD
>   dying (this one isn't old, just 1/2 year at max). The second Sata-HDD is
>   brand new
>   <sigh>
>
>   Tilman
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