Pc problem..

mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Some piece of shit malware has found its way onto my pc.. now this pc isn't connected to the internet, its been on there 3 times probably.. its a ps1 emulator and dvd player, pretty much all its used for..

Whatever it is gives the message "ACCESS TO SPECIFIED DEVICE, PATH, OR FILE IS DENIED" So somehting is trying to access something thats not there.. this message will sometimes not come up at all, and other times every 5/10/20 seconds, one on another..

Its got anti virus (no results) firewall and has had hijack this ran on it, nothing sus on there..

So what the hell is going on? anyone had this themselfs?
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..... · Quote Me Happy Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Karma :

Have you tried Ad Aware?

and Spybot ?

If not, do.

numark1 · Scared of girls Joined: 10 May 2004 Karma :

Try what joe said, download either or both of those programs and restart your pc in safe mode, run the scans then it should be hunky dorey. Thumbs Up

..... · Quote Me Happy Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Karma :

Or maybe go to Start ---> Run and type Msconfig. Maybe there's something in the startup list causing it?

numark1 · Scared of girls Joined: 10 May 2004 Karma :

Just after typing my reply i made a topic about msconfig, check here and you've mentioned it. Weird. Laughing

T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

try system restore if you have it...can save a lot of effing about.
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mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

System restore usues up faaaar too much system resources, and its win2k anyways...

Used antivirus, hijackthis, spybot, adaware.. nothing got rid of the problem..

So now its getting formated Thumbs Up

Thanks anyways all
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Skunkcap Freddie · Brolly Dolly Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Karma :

download a program called crap cleaner.

its pretty good. and makes restore points of its own program incase it fucks somthing up

mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Well interestingly, it was doing similar again AFTER a reformat, turns out it was the dvd rom drive! for whatever reason it was picking up a phantom disc and not being able to deal with it..

At least i didn't loose 2memory cards worth of ps1 games for nothing Rolling Eyes

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