This afternoon while looking through these forums I got a real nasty virus I have been trying to deal with for the rest of the afternoon and evening. It was the FakeSpypro virus. I am completely lost as to what to try next. I got the virus and at first windows defender was doing a pretty good job or so I thought of keeping it out but then one system after another started crashing including windows defender. Task Manager was disabled. I then just shut down the computer and restarted. Upon restarting I was presented with a blue screen of death saying that windows was unabled to startup. It once again restarted and booted into startup repairer. Now heres where things really go wrong! I run startup repairer and it asks me if I want to restore the system to a earlier restore point. I click yes and I am guessing about half way through the power goes out. The power comes back on after only a second or 2 and I attempt to run System restore again. This time it finishing but says that it was unable to restore because it can't create a file that already exists.

So I load windows normally and I get to the desktop and everything and I do mean everything starts crashing right away accept for sound, the Internet connection, and windows Defender. I scan the computer using windows defender and I remove the fakespypro virus then restart my computer. Again everything starts crashing as soon as the desktop comes on. I then attempt to run System restore a couple more times still same error message. I boot into safe mode with command prompt and type in sfc /scannow the scan finds no errors. I have done memory checks all of which comes back normal.

The only other option I can think of is a complete Hard drive wipe but I have alot of stuff not backed up and while I was able to remove my most important files and get them onto this computer I would still rather not have to reinstall everything! Any suggestions would be great!

Ok why does it say some one responsed yet I am unable to see the response?

Quote:Original post by tstrimp
By "these forums" I assume you mean some shady porn site. [grin]

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

lol no by these forums I mean Gamedev.net I was waiting for a reply to my post in the Game programming forum about Terrain paging.

Don't forget, you can reinstall operating systems without reformatting the drive you're installing to.

I would try to find some way to find where the virus is initializing itself. Either it's a stand alone program (which can be found and removed) or it spliced itself into existing executable code (which needs to be scanned and removed). The three places to check are the registry startup, the startup folder, and system services. You can probably do some online research and find some documentation on the viruses behavior and characteristics. Some sites even give you instructions on removal.

Yeah GameDev ain't no support site, so these kinda threads are usually shunned, so as not to provide too much clutter in the brilliant crazy discussion that go on.

Please go to one of those sites, whose names escape me, that have instructions on what to do with viruses and forums (sic!) where you can post your log from e.g. hijackthis and usually get eager advice on how to proceed.