HALP! Computer Virus

i hope you have your iimportant data backed up.

try using the google on your good computer to see if you can figure out which virus you might have. i'm sure you aren't the only one affected and somewhere someone probably wrote about it in a forum.

maybe there is a fix you can download, put on a usb drive, and then boot the infected computer off of that.

not sure if that would work but it's something I would try.

if you're brave enough maybe go back into the offending email and see if by hovering over the link you can get the address or file name or something like that.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7586_102-0.html?threadID=258802

6th comment down, unless your techie friend know of something better

Vidro - which one? that darik nuke thing?

Carmen - I did a search and can't find anything when googling "friendster virus". The email seems to be gone from my mailbox

I think this is relevant:

http://my.opera.com/chaitanyak/blog/index.dml/tag/2000-0146 error

this is going to suck. am calling dell

yes.....i am online with dell now....they are sending me a new hard drive (thankfully,it's under warranty).

they think i may be able to recover data by making drive a slave to desktop or getting one of these (anybody have one???)

https://chat2.us.dell.com/netagent/scripts/srvgate.dll?Action=1070&WID=28016136

oh, sorry....

this is correct link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002&Tpk=N82E16812232002 ]

i may have one somewhere...i had a problem once before and needed an enclosure....any chance that if this is a virus it will kill the new HD too?

Any virus that may be on that drive shouldn't be a problem as long as you don't boot on it. And most viruses now don't cause any real damage anyway -- they're more likely aiming to get the machine into a botnet.

Assuming you end up being able to boot the replacement drive and get the original up as a slave or through that USB adaptor, be sure to run a virus scan on it before you transfer anything.

don't think so....how do i do that?

what a way to waste a beautiful day 8^(

Flexichick wrote: dell agent just said image backup not available on xp, just vista

i've been at this for HOURS now

Maybe not as part of the OS but the software that came with My Iomega external drive does it as do Acronis and many others.

An image allows you to install a new hard drive, boot to the recovery CD which will install your external HD and restore an exact image of your old drive to the new drive. That is instead of spending 1 day in fron tof the computer reinstalling everything and reconfiguring it

Are you using Windoz backup?

Check to see if there is backup and imaging software that came with your external HD

2 hours for 4 gb is way too slow

ok, i canceled and am trying to use western digital sync program

backup is done...I think I've got everything - my docs (includng music and pictures) and all of my outlook email, calendar and contacts.

infected (or broken hard drive) laptop is up and working, but extremely slowly. I ran anti virus overnight and it found one "malware", but then didn't seem to be able to remove it.

I'm going to rescan the passport before loading the stuff on my new HD.

what sucks is that I don't have my Office 2007 disks, but i have a valid license, so maybe i can d/l it again and enter the product key.

i wasted the entire day yesterday...I will say that the Dell rep who I finally got to was fabulous and spent over 5 hours talking with me....gave me his direct phone number and will work with me again on Wed. to reinstall my HD and software. the trick is that this laptop is still covered under a work warranty, which entitles me to support from a North American rep. If I talked to India for 5 hours I would have killed something by then.