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Having a bad month.

  • 13-11-2009 4:31pm
    #1
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭


    Ok, this time the college computers gave my external harddrive a trojan.

    I was using my harddrive fine at home yesterday, connected it to college computer today and was working away for a while, I went to open the harddrive folder and it didnt know what software to open it with, which was very odd and then a trojan warning popped up form symantics.

    The computers in that lab started having a problem where they would shut off periodicaly and then not bott up because it was trying to boot form a CD, Im assuming it wa s a similar problem to the harddrive recognition with my portable.

    Anywas, I know there is probably still a virus there even though I deleted one after running symantics and Im afraid of connecting it to my PC and running some scans on here.

    Any advice? I was thinking maybe starting it in safe mode with the harddrive connected might help prevent the trojan entering my computer and then running some scans from there?


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  • #2
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    My bad month gets even worse. Had to try and start my computer sevral times today because it was hanging on the bios screen. When it did start and windows loaded the screen res had changed and all my folders had moved to the left, I normally have them spread around the four sides of the screen. Running some scans at the moment.

    Do you reckon it is a virus or could it be hardware issues?


  • #3
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Forgot to mention in my previous posts that there was sevral power cuts in my house over the last week, twice while the computer was on. Im guessing this may be a contributing factor?


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