I search before posting this. The only mentions of the viruses I had only showed hoax or something like like. I had problems booting my machine after shutting down one night. The next day, my computer would not boot. OS was missing. At times, the hard drive was missing. I tried to install windows and it got so far, then it said it could not read file on CD-ROM. I thought my drive was bad. I did use my desktop for months because of this. I bought a laptop and used that. Then one day I bought a new drive and had problems getting it to work. Came up with an idea to us a USB adapter on my drive and plug it into the laptop. It worked. I could see the 2 partitions and all the files on it. I did a virus scan on just the windows directory first, and when it finished really fast, I was wondering why. When I opened the Windows folder, the folders where there, but no files. All the files were gone. When I scanned the whole drive, it came up with Win32:Rbot-BXK, Win32:Linage-197, and Win32:Spyware-gen. When I searched these on this site, I could not find any real info about them. I’m guessing one of these caused my problem. It also changed something in the CMOS settings, because when I put my old 15gig drive in to get it working, it was really, really, really slow, like an old 386 33MHz. I am using the hard drive that had the viruses now, since they have been cleaned off, and everythings working fine. I did have to re-install Windows. This X64 version of Windows is beginning to be more of a problem than I first expected. It’s hard to find drivers for hardware. I can’t even use my wireless with it.
Any way, dose this sound right for those 3 viruses listed above? Or could it be something else?
I can’t say for sure as I’m not a virus expert.
Anyway, since you’ve formatted and started again it will be difficult to know for sure (to whom is not a virus analyst…).
Tried to Google but did not find anything that relevant… Maybe it’s just too late here ;D
Glad you, after all, have your computer working back again
The 3 you mention are NOT "viruses"; the "Rbot-BXK"
appears to be a "trojan", the "Spyware-gen" should be
self explanatory ( spyware ), and knows what is the
other. The main point is that you need MORE than an
antivirus program for protection, at least one
antiSPYWARE program AND one antiTROJAN program.
AND you said nothing about the presence of a software
firewall !?
I used Spyware Search and Destroy with mem/res on. Windows firewall on high settings since I’m using X64. I use to us Zone Alarm, but I read bad reviews on their 64 bit firewall, so I decide not to use it. My brother in law had the same problem with his laptop. He couldn’t get it to boot and when he could check the directories, the folder were empty of files. I did a wipe on that and re-installed for him and that worked for a while. It happened again, but he was going to do it this time. Mine really got me when I tried to install Windows and it said it could not read from the CD. Since I used the USB adapter and scanned and cleaned it of viruses and spyware, I thought a Trojan was a virus, it’s been working fine. I’m running on that drive now with a fresh install of Windows. I did not wipe this drive because it had too many important files on it. Since I cleaned it, it’s working fine. I didn’t need to buy a new drive, but since I have it (300 gig) I’ve been trying to use the Seagate Disk Wizard to copy it all over, but that is the only problem I am having. It will not copy everything over. It says there is an error with a file or files and can’t copy them over. It said to run scandisk, but it seems XP doesn’t have scandisk, but only chkdsk. So I used that and it still doesn’t work. It also mentioned to use defrag, but I just did that a few days ago. I would have put Windows on my WD Raptor again, but now I was having a problem with that. I’m thinking it might have been the CMOS setting that got messed up when all this happened. Even though I did check all the settings for the SATA drive to work, it still did work as a boot disk. I did have it working before and it was smoking fast. I bought another Raptor on E-Bay and it was DOA. Of course, the day after I paid for it, I get an e-mail from E-Bay not to pay for it because the sellers account had just been deleted for what ever reason. Needless to say, I’m out $125. I tried to raid to two together and found it was bad, so I lost my installation of Windows on it. Any way, what would cause the files to delete like that?
