• Got a virus - system restored - now my computer blue screens on startup
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No, i wasn't looking at porn. Yes, I know I'm stupid for getting myself a virus. I was browsing for music on some dodgy site and followed a link that said "show comments" and for some reason it directed me to another page and gave me a virus called "Antivir Solution Pro". I couldn't use the internet, end task, or use any of my anti-virus programs. So I system restored from a day earlier. It was all working fine until the next day. Now every time my computer starts up and reaches the desktop, I get a blue screen in about 30 seconds. I can't even do anything like see what programs are running and use any anti-virus because I don't have enough time. I'm currently running in safe mode with networking. So is it possible the virus is till present? I don't know anything about how system restore works, but I take it that there's still some stuff lying around from the virus. Is it important what shows up on the blue screen? If so I can try to take a photo.
A reformat may be the only solution.
If you have not reformatted yet, wait. The first thing you should do is disconnect the internet from that computer if you have not already. If you have another computer, google solutions on that. The worst thing you can do with a virus is let it have contact to the internet where it will try to download more and more shit.
Take a photo of it. My aunt got infected with this and it pulled up fake BSoDs
[QUOTE=RixxzIV;23639034]A reformat may be the only solution.[/QUOTE] I was hoping it wouldn't have to come to this. I'll wait a bit more before I decide on reformatting. [editline]10:54PM[/editline] I'm gonna take a photo now of the blue screen. [editline]11:10PM[/editline] Okay, so I can't actually connect my camera to my computer in safe mode. I'll write up what it says in a quote though, wait a sec. [editline]11:20PM[/editline] [quote=Blue Screen of Assholeness]A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. INVALID_PROCESS_DETACH_ATTEMPT If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need. If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup options, and then select Safe Mod. Technical Information: *** STOP: 0x00000006 (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Collecting data for crash dump... Initializing disk for crash dump... Beginning dump of physical memory. Dumping physical memory to disk: 30[/quote] The blue screen. I don't know if this might be related, but I recently upgraded from 3g ram to 4g three days ago. I don't think that's relevant though.
I don't know if you've had your question answered yet, and I hope nobody gets pissed off at me for bumping, but the bsod stop 0x06, which you got is related to hardware or drivers. The RAM you put in is probably what's doing it. Beyond that, I don't know.
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