Woah guys, some super virus just hit my computer...

[Flipperk]

 And I have no idea what it is...


I was looking for lyrics to a song I was hearing on TV, (seriously), and I got a pop-up...no big deal clicked to red X and went on. A few minutes later my browser froze up, so I let it sit for a couple of seconds and then it seemed fine...until I started to go to youtube. When I logged onto to youtube the format of the website was all wrong, so I closed my browser and tried to open firefox again. I got a message saying that the program does not exist.

I said WTF? I went to my McAfee security program, wouldn't start either. No right clicks were working. Even went through the Run program to start anything...nothing. I went into my start shortcut to look at all of my folders, each of the folders were there but EVERYTHING was GONE.

In a last ditch effort I tried to run Malware Bytes but like before with all the other programs, nothing happened.

I turned off my computer and I was expecting it to not even start at this point, I was horribly correct.



I have no idea what hit my system but it cleaned out 45G of information in a heartbeat.


Careful guys!


Going to the store to get another HD.

[bagrat]

try restarting your computer in safe mode (if it even lets u get that far) then maybe you could run your anti virus software. Also look for any programs popping up that u did not install yourself, these are usually virus programs disguised as a virus removal program and look it up on the intewebz on how to remove it if the former does not get rid of it.

my comp had a virus recently and would not start up either, I just gave it a day tried to start it up and it did. I immediately began tapping F8 rapidly to make sure it would go to safe mode so I could remove or recover the system.

[Flipperk]

try re-starting your computer in safe mode (if it even lets u get that far) then maybe you could run your anti virus software. Also look for any programs popping up that u did not install yourself, these are usually virus programs disguised as a virus removal program and look it up on the intewebz on how to remove it if the former does not get rid of it.

Unfortunately I can not even get that far...the load up bar get about half-way and just stops. Also my hard drive is making a weird sound. It is like a clicking noise, as if something is loose.

I do not know if this has anything to do with it, (This is my laptop we are talking about) I dropped it off the counter top earlier today. I tripped over the power cable and it hit the floor pretty hard. It has been working fine until then...any relation?

[AAJagerX]

Sounds like ya had a head failure on the drive due to damage.  Sometimes it works fine for a little bit, but the debris in the drive is still causing damage up until it dies altogether.

[Flipperk]

Sounds like ya had a head failure on the drive due to damage.  Sometimes it works fine for a little bit, but the debris in the drive is still causing damage up until it dies altogether.

Its a little late to pull out the screw driver and preform a last minute surgery on the poor thing. Ill wait till the morning, its not like I have anything else to do tomorrow due to this weather

[Tac]

clicking hard drive is hardware failure... I doubt it was a virus of any sort.

[Shuffler]

Unfortunately I can not even get that far...the load up bar get about half-way and just stops. Also my hard drive is making a weird sound. It is like a clicking noise, as if something is loose.

I do not know if this has anything to do with it, (This is my laptop we are talking about) I dropped it off the counter top earlier today. I tripped over the power cable and it hit the floor pretty hard. It has been working fine until then...any relation?

Lappys have motion sensors. If it gets a shock the drive head locks to protect the information on the drive.

[Dadsguns]

Got on the wrong kiddie site tyring to look up the Justin Bieber song I see and got a virus ....   

 

[Masherbrum]

Not a virus, just coincidence.

[NormH3]

I agree with others..sounds like your hard drive up and died.

[Westy]

"it hit the floor pretty hard. It has been working fine until then...any relation? "

Not at all. Just a coinkadink. When you really think about it you probably just
need a new mouse.

[grizz441]

Not sure what happened but I would have immediately done a system restore to the day previous.

[NormH3]

Lappys have motion sensors. If it gets a shock the drive head locks to protect the information on the drive.

Really depends on the model. Not sure that they all have it. I think it was first developed by Apple

[BoilerDown]

Also my hard drive is making a weird sound. It is like a clicking noise, as if something is loose.

Textbook symptom of a crashed hard drive.

I do not know if this has anything to do with it, (This is my laptop we are talking about) I dropped it off the counter top earlier today. I tripped over the power cable and it hit the floor pretty hard. It has been working fine until then...any relation?

Sure seems that way.  

IF you can get the hard drive to spin up one more time, try to get any critical information off of it before you do anything else.  But the vast majority of the time it won't spin up even once more when this happens.

[Babalonian]

Its a little late to pull out the screw driver and preform a last minute surgery on the poor thing. Ill wait till the morning, its not like I have anything else to do tomorrow due to this weather

Even I wouldn't disasemble a hard drive and attemt to physicaly repair the heads, especialy if there was data on the disks I wanted to retain and not loose.  Especialy given the price of hard drives these days, I'd just buy a new one.  It's most likely a hardware failure, but given that if anything wrong can happen it will, take precautions not to reinfect you new hard drive or settup in the event this was a virus.