I am at the end of my rope-I have tried everything, and I mean EVERYTHING (ok, I did not hire an exorcist) and this bleepin computer is still not right.

Posting in safe mode is weird but at least I can post! How hard is it to wipe out the hard drive and reinstall everything?

I'm scared I'll do this and nothing will work anymore! I guess I have to back up all my pics, docs and music. Ugh. And find all those disks!

Anyone done this and come out the other side OK? Tell me it's gonna be juuuuust fine

• RE: Rut roh,grit, 05:03 PM, 06-14-09
  • RE: Rut roh,CTgirl, 09:58 PM, 06-14-09
• One more piece of rope,IceCat, 07:41 PM, 06-14-09
  • thanks!,moonbaby, 08:27 PM, 06-14-09
• RE: Rut roh,Snidget, 07:06 AM, 06-15-09
• A possible solution!,moonbaby, 12:43 PM, 06-16-09
  • RE: A possible solution!,dabo, 06:20 PM, 06-16-09

It's doable as long as you have all your original disks for the operating system and any programs you regularly use.

I backed everything up to an external hard drive before doing a full hard drive wipe. It's easier to use that than backing everything up to CDs. Do you have an external hard drive? If you don't have one, they're not too expensive and really worth the money.

It was a time-consuming process but in the end it worked.

Good luck, moonie.

I got a virus/trojan of the pornographic kind last Christmas (believe it or not I really think I got it from surfing the gossip pages from AOL!) Fortunately my son and his friend were able to help me back everything up to a hard drive and then wiped it clean and reinstalled everything. It is very doable, just time-consuming. Like grit suggested, put everything on a hard drive. My portable hard drive cost around $100 and I use it now once a month to back up all my files "just in case."

The time-consuming part is reinstalling everything and finding things like all my playlists from itunes were gone or my six most recent weeks of Quicken were missing. Not life threatening but extremely annoying!

I feel your pain moonie!

Good Luck.

A review on SafeCentral by Authentium

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3783846/New-Tools-to-Battle-the-Sinowal-Trojan.htm

"Essentially, Authentium's product, SafeCentral, uses
reverse sandboxing to render the Sinowal Trojan blind and
helpless, not letting it see or log keystrokes, track Web sites
visited or access a user's files. It also provides a secure
hidden domain name system (DNS) that is invisible to
Sinowal."

Here's Authentium's website link:

http://www.authentium.com/mainv2/index.htm

Good luck!

I'll check that out. I kinda got sidetracked today when I was backing up pictures. There's so much, it's overwhelming! Going to check out the hard drive idea grit mentioned, too.

The bug keeps coming back when the system boots up. I can't for the life of me find the program that's regenerating it after I delete it.

Thanks again, guys. Worst case I'll bring it to the computer place near here after I render it totally inoperable

Make sure you check the manual for which color goat you need to sacrifice and if it should be at the new or full moon.

People are always getting that step wrong.

Good luck with your restorations!

http://forum.drweb.com/lofiversion/index.php/t197837.html

I ran this last night and it caught the little booger I think it killed it, too.

Doing an in depth scan later.

*fingers crossed*

Thanks for the update, "fingers crossed."