Hello!
I was surfing the net yesterday and I visited the website:
hxxp://www.bloodshed.net/images/devcpp5_scr.jpg
When I did, my computer became too busy for about one minute and I could not do anything else. Then, a blue screen of death (BSOD) appeared and I rebooted my computer. Unfortunately, the hard disk is not recognised now, no matter what I do. It is not recognised from BIOS, from the Windows Installation CD, from DrWeb LiveCD. I think that the hard disk has burnt. Fortunately, I have back-ups of my files and I am going to buy a new hard disk tomorrow.
Please check it out and update Avast! definitions, if this link installs malware.
Note that I have not opened this link again.
Thanks!
to check if you are infected, follow this guide and attach (not copy and paste) logs from Malwarebytes / OTL / aswMBR
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
I am running my PC from DrWeb LiveCD right now, which has only Firefox and a very old DrWeb Scanner. I have not found other way to go online till tomorrow, when the shops will be open. I am not in an operating system. As I have said, my computer behaves as if there was no hard disk, so I cannot follow your advice. So, I would like for some expert to visit the link I posted and check if it is malicious.
The damage has been done 
I started this thread so that other avast users will be protected in the future.
url check…click the picture
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=66259
Have you visited the link with your browser?
Are you brave enough to do so? 
It is hard to believe that this huge damage has not been caused by a virus spread by this link. ???
To be more specific, I visited the website: hxxp://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html and I clicked on “Screenshot” on top of the website.
why risk that when you can use online tools like sucuri / zulu zscaler / urlvoid / virustotal / unmaskparasites. 
But such tools are not 100% effective.
Anyway, this issue is of little importance to me now, once my own hard disk has been ruined.
I am just a little curious and I want to help other Avast! users.
Is the forum read by analysts who work in Avast! virus lab?
nothing is 100% effective…if antivirus was, there would not be a virus problem
follow the guide i gave in reply #1 and essexboy will check and see what infection you have…if any…then remove it
Sorry for becoming persistent, but how can I follow the guide when I am having no hard disk? I am now working from DrWeb LiveCd which uses, I think, a version of Linux. Anyway, I downloaded Malwarebytes and I could not run the exe file. I cannot run any exe file.
So, what I am asking is reproducing the infection. (If it is an infection)
If need be, tell me to contact Virus Lab.
There is nothing to affect your machine at that site at this time.
I visited the URL in SafeZone and then a sandboxed browser on a test machine and saw nothing unusual. Have since tested in IE9, Firefox and Opera without a sandbox, no infection of any kind found. Have tested the machine with Malwarebytes, Avast and run an online scan at Eset … all totally clean.
It could well be a coincidental drive failure
What is your operating system ?
My operating system is Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Anyway, I bought a new hard disk, I installed windows and other programms and my computer is now running normally.
I hope that this damage was a strange coincidental drive failure and not avast’s fault, because I do not want to lose my faith in Avast
As Dr web could not see the drive I feel the problem was a drive failure. If Avast should have removed any boot components then a Live CD would still see all your files and folders