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

[KayBayRay]

Your Hard Drive just died...

DO NOT POWER IT UP ANY MORE.... STOP EVERYTHING WITH  YOUR COMPUTER.....EVERY TIME YOU POWER IT UP YOU LOSE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE FOLLOWING....

Contact friends you know that are IT types and ask if one of them can "RE-IMAGE" your hard drive to another drive.... IE.. Suck the data off it using other hardware and software... and dump it to another drive. Ignore anybody that doesnt understand what you are talking about when you ask this and keep looking for somebody that does.

Good Luck 

KayBay

[MrRiplEy[H]]

By the way, a search for 'song lyrics' is the most efficient way to discover malicious sites on internet.

[MarineUS]

i just had one hit me. I was on 3 forums at once and opened tabs to ones i planned to respond to (about 20 or so) and then firefox froze up. No biggie. Well after I hit close this program it closed then the screen went black and my X52 lights did a weird flash pattern and then the computer shut off. Now every time I start it I get the blue screen of death.

I'm tech savvy but right now I am STUMPED! When I ran it in safe mode and put in a blank disc I got the blue screen again. I get it automatically in safe mode with net working....I was going to just make a data disc and wipe to comp.

Any time I start a program it flops. I did 2 restores and neither worked. All previous restore dates are gone. For some reason it only goes back to the 4th at 12AM........

I can't afford to lose some of the stuff on it - which is why i was just going to make the data disc and say screw it....alas...i can not do so....any ideas?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

i just had one hit me. I was on 3 forums at once and opened tabs to ones i planned to respond to (about 20 or so) and then firefox froze up. No biggie. Well after I hit close this program it closed then the screen went black and my X52 lights did a weird flash pattern and then the computer shut off. Now every time I start it I get the blue screen of death.

I'm tech savvy but right now I am STUMPED! When I ran it in safe mode and put in a blank disc I got the blue screen again. I get it automatically in safe mode with net working....I was going to just make a data disc and wipe to comp.

Any time I start a program it flops. I did 2 restores and neither worked. All previous restore dates are gone. For some reason it only goes back to the 4th at 12AM........

I can't afford to lose some of the stuff on it - which is why i was just going to make the data disc and say screw it....alas...i can not do so....any ideas?

Try to reinstall the OS _without_ formatting the drive. If that fails you have a hardware failure instead of a virus most likely. Might be a bad harddrive for example.

[NormH3]

Go get yourself a replacement hard drive and load a fresh OS install on it. Take your original drive and either mount it internally or in an external case and copy off any data that can be recovered. After all is said and done, get yourself a subscription to one of the inexpensive online backup services.

[MarineUS]

had to wipe it. Couldn't do it through safe mode. Kept getting BSOD.

Had to alt+F10 at start up - launch from HDD and alt+F10 again