Well Today started of great!
But ended extremely poorly.
My antivirus started telling me it was blocking something, I was cool, at least its blocking it. It quickly turned poor after that.
Well Today started of great!
But ended extremely poorly.
My antivirus started telling me it was blocking something, I was cool, at least its blocking it. It quickly turned poor after that.
Shortly after some odd program started Called Just in-Time Debugger. I have NO clue what that is. So I close it, it opens back up shortly after, and again and again.
So I turn off my machine, it wants to install updates, ok.
That danged thing comes back up AGAIN!
So the machine finishes updating and shuts off.
I turn it back on, it will NOT load windows.
I’m starting to hit panic mode. SO I start system recovery, Wrong password restart.
So I pull out and dust off the manual desperately looking for recovery information. Ah finally find it.
This is where it gets good.
I unplug everything from the PC, except mouse keyboard monitor. Start the restoration. It was (for now) A success. Sure I lost all the danged files, a lot of the programs stayed though. And thankfully this is just the streaming/downloading machine.
So now I’m in the process of getting everything back to normal.
Stay tuned.
Not Wonderful
The Crow I read your experience 3 times and now feel some of the frustration that you must have felt. These machines that have become the control panel for life can so easily go off the track and plunge off a cliff.
I do hope you will have no more trouble.
Worst Night Ever
I feel your pain!!!
Not that it helps now, but for the future, think “System Restore”
I have encountered serious problems on 3 different occasions with XP and Vista on several computers that were solved by running system restore. Basically, the idea is to restore your operating system and registry to what it was on some previous date that you select. You just need to select a date prior to when your problem stated.
I used to have the luxury of having more than one computer, so when things went south, I went to the other one and searched the web for the solution. It’s amazing how much useful info is out there. You can search for stupid stuff like “blank screen after restart” and get the answer within minutes.
For the future, do a search for “system restore” and keep it in mind for future catastrophes. You can even get to system restore during a bad restart process by pressing ctrl-alt-del at the appropriate time.
You might also consider upgrading to a new virus protection software. I have been using Symantec and then McAffee for years and haven’t had any virus problems.
The days of blasting Microsoft for vulnerabilities are pretty much gone. Whatever you think about Microsoft, you have to hand it to them that they have really made the effort to close off the hacker doors. Keep your OS updated (use automatic updates) and use a reputable antivirus program.
Worst Night Ever
I feel your pain!!!
Not that it helps now, but for the future, think “System Restore”
I have encountered serious problems on 3 different occasions with XP and Vista on several computers that were solved by running system restore. Basically, the idea is to restore your operating system and registry to what it was on some previous date that you select. You just need to select a date prior to when your problem stated.
I used to have the luxury of having more than one computer, so when things went south, I went to the other one and searched the web for the solution. It’s amazing how much useful info is out there. You can search for stupid stuff like “blank screen after restart” and get the answer within minutes.
For the future, do a search for “system restore” and keep it in mind for future catastrophes. You can even get to system restore during a bad restart process by pressing ctrl-alt-del at the appropriate time.
You might also consider upgrading to a new virus protection software. I have been using Symantec and then McAffee for years and haven’t had any virus problems.
The days of blasting Microsoft for vulnerabilities are pretty much gone. Whatever you think about Microsoft, you have to hand it to them that they have really made the effort to close off the hacker doors. Keep your OS updated (use automatic updates) and use a reputable antivirus program.
System Restore
I’ve actually had to use that on my Win7 once, but only because of a bad update.
my poor XP was too far shot to be able to do that.
surprisingly I only lost my files, most of the programs were still there upon System restore.
Agreed on the net being useful, I’ve used it numerous times to figure out of some exe was bad or not.
What Worked For Me…
I had a similar situation. I was told to first boot in Safe Mode. Reason for that is most of these malware/viruses have to load at boot. But, when you boot in Safe Mode they are not loaded, only minimal services to run Windows will load.
Then, you can run your antivirus doctors and usually eliminate the problem without resorting to dumping your hard drive and starting over from scratch.
Safe Mode
Hey mram thanks for your feedback
that was actually one of the first things I tried.
even Safe Mode would not load. It must have been some super virus!
Sorry to see that
We depend so much on our machines … when they fail, it’s frustrating.
FWIW, I’ve used Macs almost exclusively for 23 years. They’ve worked well for me, never had a virus. Still, bad things can happen.
I don’t know what the equivalent is for Windows, but every Sunday night at Midnight, I back up, D/L and install Apple updates and any others for software I use a lot. Then I clear cookies and empty the caches from my browsers. Then I trash many prefs, reset disk permissions, and shut down the computer.
I basically go thru the same procedures for my other computers.
When I’m all done, I check all my connections, power protection devices, etc., fire it all up and test my modems, internet connections, and Shoutcast servers. Usually, everything runs smoothly (barring power outages) for another week. I don’t have listeners at Midnight on Sunday night anyway, but if I did I could operate remotely to my Shoutcast servers from my netbook, I just wouldn’t have the same material available.
On Line Again
In some way I think the panic we feel when our connection breaks down gives our brain a jump start to where we are able to lift 10-times our own weight, or whatever it takes to reconnect.
When we get back online there is a sense that we must be smarter than we are to have conquered the unknown, but down deeper, it’s unsettling to not actually know what happened or why it got fixed.
There could be virus activity keeping us afloat until the exact time when meltdown happens all over again.
Please report on anything you can figure out about the whole “accident.” And your lost files, can they be replaced?
How and why…
Well I got the alert when I was uploading a 2 year oldies anniversary picture to photobucket.
I’m pretty darned sure it came from there.
Although a few days prior my machine crashed with no reason, it simply restarted and when I logged on it said it had recovered from a serious error. I figured I had it running to long.
As for my files, I lost all my music, my sweepers, my ID’s, my logs, my passwords, and my streaming software. However, all my music and ID’s were backed up on the automation machine which was unharmed during all this, in addition to backup on 2 thumb drives.
So for the most part, music wise its all replaceable. The logs are gone forever, as well as all my old logos. And my custom fonts…
So far the machine is not showing any signs of the virus still being active. It seems that a system restore helped nuke that bugger. Now, I know in the past the system restore drive itself had a trojan on it, but does not appear to be active as well, I’m guessing the anti-virus killed it years ago.
If anything happens I’ll let you folks know.
Also, before restore I had 25 or so gigs left on the drive, now I have 33 gigs left, so obviously some things are missing.