Windows restart infinite loop.
halo2_god
New York state
Hello, I'm using an alternative machine to write this report.
windows 2000 professional. (infected machine)
Moving on to my problem, I recently stumbled upon a notebook that was badly infected after coming back from china i saw it laying around some friends house and i asked them if it worked they said it was infected
I said I might be able to fix it. So i charged it for 10 minutes then turned it on while on AC if i need to unplug it i would have a little bit of a charge.
When I booted it up i noticed an annoying pop-up (fake windows error). I easily ended the process tree 10 minutes later the process was running again, I figured it was a scheduled task. There where many problems and i couldn't connect to the internet to download proper software so.
On the machine I'm reporting to you on on I decided to burn a copy of avira boot disk to a blank CD and run it off of a externally connected cd drive (on the infected system). The infected laptop booted off the cd and ran correctly, then it scanned and cleaned everything apparently. But i noticed that it was renaming everything it couldn't remove, the malware must have injected it's self into a .dll needed to run windows professional. It must have renamed files needed to run windows 2000 professional.
What could I do to fix this? I figured that if I made some form of a rescue CD that might upload all the original dll's it would work.
windows 2000 professional. (infected machine)
Moving on to my problem, I recently stumbled upon a notebook that was badly infected after coming back from china i saw it laying around some friends house and i asked them if it worked they said it was infected
I said I might be able to fix it. So i charged it for 10 minutes then turned it on while on AC if i need to unplug it i would have a little bit of a charge.
When I booted it up i noticed an annoying pop-up (fake windows error). I easily ended the process tree 10 minutes later the process was running again, I figured it was a scheduled task. There where many problems and i couldn't connect to the internet to download proper software so.
On the machine I'm reporting to you on on I decided to burn a copy of avira boot disk to a blank CD and run it off of a externally connected cd drive (on the infected system). The infected laptop booted off the cd and ran correctly, then it scanned and cleaned everything apparently. But i noticed that it was renaming everything it couldn't remove, the malware must have injected it's self into a .dll needed to run windows professional. It must have renamed files needed to run windows 2000 professional.
What could I do to fix this? I figured that if I made some form of a rescue CD that might upload all the original dll's it would work.
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The only option is a reformat.
It only takes one file to survive and you are back to square one.
1) Your choice
2) Should do.