[B]Hello Facepunch.[/B]
I recently came down with a computer worm, instantly I shut down my router and ran every anti-virus freeware program I have (I'm a cheap bastard), all of which failed to detect it. So, I reverted to a system restore point that was two days before I got the worm.
That got rid of what the worm was doing, which was blocking my browsers (chrome, steam), however, now there's a new problem.
Whenever I try to run any game using hl2.exe (garry's mod, Obsidian Conflict, Portal, etc), the program crashes before it even starts. To add insult to injury, APB's launcher doesn't start either.
However, I observed that games I didn't play before I had the worm, such as Battlefield Bad Company 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, they all work fine.
I've restarted my computer, as well as reinstalled STEAM.
Upon reinstalling STEAM, I downloaded Half-Life 2 to test if I could play it.
I still can't.
This isn't an ordinary problem, I couldn't find any topics on it.
Not much left to turn to for help.
Reformat
[QUOTE=alphaspida;23861064]Reformat[/QUOTE]
That's the last resort.
There has to be a better way.
Try Malware Bytes if you haven't already, if not U'm afraid it's a reformat.
I had something like this. Except it also had a fake antivirus program and didn't make anything startup. I tracked it down a DELETED. EVERY. LAST. PIECE. Also, viruses can hide in system restore, you have to delete something. You could try deleting the game folders and playing the game (not deleting local content) this will make it all shiny and new, but if you do have saves or other precious data, I recommend copying those. I forgot to do that for GMod when I cleaned it out... :saddowns:
Hope this was helpful. :buddy:
defrag
[QUOTE=alphaspida;23861064]Reformat[/QUOTE]
This.
If I ever had any of my machines compromised by malware then I would just reformat.
The amount of time taken to actually ensure you've got rid of every last thing (and then, can you be sure?) compared to actually just refomatting would leave me to recommend formatting everytime (this is assuming of course that you've backed up your shit and big installed stuff like steam is on another drive).
I have to wonder OP, what the fuck were you doing to get malware in the first place. I don't run any anti-malware of anti-virus software on my machines and I've never had a problem.
Safe mode and Malwarebytes.
Fixes everything for me.
He may have gotten a worm the same way I did, and if that is the case, I simply reformatted. OP, did someone on steam send you a file that was a Steam Client reskin?
Do this in safe mode: Malwarebytes scan, regular antivirus scan, regular antispyware scan, malwarebytes scan again, delete all restore points.
This method has yet to fail for me.
If you still have problems, you may need to reformat.
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Only delete the restore points if you haven't made any recent changes in hardware.
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23867852]I have to wonder OP, what the fuck were you doing to get malware in the first place. [/QUOTE]
He went to [url]www.wowomg.com[/url]
Back up what ever important stuff you want to another hard drive, then reformat. While that's reformatting, scan the backup disk with anti-virus, malware, spyware programs. Just to make sure.
I don't think you can reformat while scanning, wouldn't the reformat destroy the scanner--well, first, be more specific.
When you back up you put it on a different HDD. Durr.
Update your graphics drivers. I had the same problem, wouldn't let me play any source game without it crashing after a second of the screen going black. Updated drivers, then it works.
[QUOTE=GunfighterJ;23872136]When you back up you put it on a different HDD. Durr.[/QUOTE]
Well the scanner would probably be on the HDD he is reformatting, unless he wanted to reinstall it on the backup's drive. Also, the setup would take over the computer (I'm using XP's as an example, Vista and 7 no doubt does it too), so you couldn't scan and reformat at the same time. :downswords: yourself.
2 Hard drives. Reformat one. Put the one with the backup into another computer that has a virus scanner-> scan. Really it's simple to understand, I don't know why you aren't understanding it.
Ok, now that makes sense, before you made it seem like reformatting and scanning on the same computer.
Lol no, computers aren't that smart yet.
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