A few days ago i surfed the net on my personal computer (windows 98 SE) And it seems like i caugt something. The next day i try to boot it up, It says that the configureation files are not there. I tried to do a recovery install, but now when i start it up, all that happens is my desktop picture starts up, the an error saying explorer did an illeagal operation.........
That sucks major man. Try using the original disk. Wipe out your hard drive and reistall Windows. U will lose all your stuff but it is better then losing the coomputer to some stupid viruse. Hope that helps.
Well actually, I wasn't finished ( had to go, I was on the school computer typing my previous post). I ment to go on and say that then there is only my picture of the desktop picture and nothing else pops up at all. I hit Ctrl+alt+delete and there is no program running at all. In short the OS doesn't start up at all. So i couldn't even if I wanted to. Also, safe mode doesn't run at all either. This is really bad for me because all my files were on that computer. Including my Fanfics (PSO and Megaman ones), my personal data files, the EP3 decks i saved on it, and all my movie files too. This is the first time this has ever happened and I have no backup for it at all.
But a friend who knows alot about computers said he can help me, but I gota bring my computer to him. Yesterday I was on for over an hour trying to at least start the OS so i can get my fanfics off it. No dice at all. I fear that I am going to lose all of it, Including the Megaman zero fanfic I wrote and took great pride in. I have a deep feeling that months of hard work and decication will be gone and dead forever. I just hope they can at least save my hard work. Does anyone know anything that can help? (And nothing dumb, I'm not in the mood for that )
And about that Grave Guardian, I've tried to reinstall windows 98 and it doesn't work.
Get a boot disc. Load it up and go to C:/
Type "edit boot.ini" without quotes. Have a look for something that might be an entry for a virus.
Type "cd windows". Then "edit system.ini". Again, look for something that might be a virus. And then "edit win.ini". Look here again.
Virus's might be hiding in your own folders, so look for references to files in your own download folders. Of course, some stuff might be there on purpose. Make backups of every file by saving it as boot.ini.backup or something.
But if you've already tried a reintall it might be hidden in your boot sector... I don't know anything about removing those. Sounds odd because you can't get back in safe mode.
You haven't lost your files. Just get your friend to take your hard drive out and transfer it to his computer. You should be able to backup files to his computer if necessary.
Well, decs beat me to the answer, but yes, what he said.
lol, I found adware hiding in my windows file under local disk C:/
. It was from real player though so it was self infected. Someone downloaded real a long while back and it weasled its way in. lol, viruses and all that other stuff are such a pain sometimes. I had to manually delete soem adware from the computers registry files (or something) >_<, took forever because I didn't want to make a mistake
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edit: I forgot to mention, Good Luck fixing your computer :\
Ahahahahahahahaah! Serves you right for surfing. You should know better than to look at random third-party sites.
Still, you did not really deserve that...
Tough break.
I got a virus in my temp files (luckily) while looking up some....errm...questionable sites...that I...errrm...used to go to
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Alot of people have Archer, thats why i had norton anti-virus corp. edition and spybot and spy sweeper, but none of them were of help here. Anyway we plan to do the idea of moving the harddrive to another computer and save my important and personal files.
There's an old DOS trick for completely destroyed PC's, type Scanreg /restore in MS-DOS. However, this trick is dodgy, it messes with the registry, so only use it as a last-ditch attempt.
I mean it, that can permanently kill your computer. Use it at your own risk. I release myself from responsibility of the consequences if you do.