Ok sorry for the absence. Looks like the PC virus attacked my body… … just came home from hospital yesterday.
:‘(OH NO… :’(I just read your MBR post and the log is below this latest reply/update.
The system went totally bonkers the day I went into the hospital. Before I left I had already made copies of my important things I could not do without. I ended up starting from scratch all over again. “Hate I did it too” but today’s issues are minor compared to last weeks!!
As stated I am having a few issues still. I can at least open .exe’e and run programs. (YIPEE) I still think one of the updates is what created the mess in the first place.
Norton was Compaq’s-Hewlett Packards freebie, so it was in operation until I put Avast back on in a few. Ran the scan, no viruses drivers were updated and all are working – made sure so I dbl checked HP’s drivers page and used Uniblue (Speed My PC/Drivers-RegistryCleaner (Powersuite)
The PC appeared to work fine until those darn updates – then :
(1) I use Firefox and noticed downloads were slow…unless I ran mouse across it to move it along, <—(sound stupid? it looked stupid doing that and I happened upon that --or so I thought until Chrome acted the same way…not sure what that is all about? DAP will be downloaded shortly –
(2) Attempted to run copied discs to scan them and hopefully at least see the contents. Nope that was not happening. The inserted disc(s) refuse to load/read-- these were my system formatted backup files. Some of the other were RAR files I had done, but nothing loaded and froze the PC up numerous times. Tried a MP3 disc from that batch I burned, same thing, however discs burned before calamity (June’s burns) all work fine. So at least I know it is not my CD/DVD drive. If it had the MBR virus those cd/dvd’s or headed to the trash ASAP!! I do not wanna ever go through this again.
(3)My Firefox’s bookmark html (json) files from June’s burns are giving me the blues…so I am about to check Firefox’s site to see what that’s all about. (more groans – groaning is allowed–“I’m still under par”)
So Norton will be kicked to the curb quick, fast and in a hurry - just wanted to post this and off I go to handle that. I am definitely going to download Malewarebytes amongst many programs I know I’ll need a.g.a.i.n… At first it seemed I was zipping along the internet highway…now I am still moving but with alot of freezes.
Windows installed their updates and once again (to me) that is when I noticed the strange behavior. It was I think (unsure 28 of them) so which one is the culprit who knows? SP1 is installed…so any suggestions on checking to see what is creating this issue? – groans groans and more groans.
BTW I am still extremely grateful for everyone’s help…even tho I ended up thinking to self "Keep current state of PC and lose PC in this battle or start fresh and keep PC. Latter was probably the best move – just lost a ton of graphic art, and since discs are not loading thats down the drain -b-u-t- "if I designed it once, I guess I can do it again…
Soft-Breeze? nope it is hot as hell here in Indiana today
…uh, how hot is hell anyways… ??? ;D
__________MBR
20:27:00.514 Disk 0 MBR read successfully
20:27:00.519 Disk 0 MBR scan
20:27:00.550 Disk 0 unknown MBR code
20:27:00.556 Service scanning
20:27:02.600 Disk 0 trace - called modules:
20:27:02.659 ntoskrnl.exe CLASSPNP.SYS disk.sys ataport.SYS PCIIDEX.SYS hal.dll msahci.sys
20:27:02.666 1 nt!IofCallDriver → \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[0xfffffa80024bb660]
20:27:02.674 3 CLASSPNP.SYS[fffff8800104a43f] → nt!IofCallDriver → \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP0T0L0-0[0xfffffa8002475060]
20:27:02.683 Scan finished successfully
20:28:26.807 Disk 0 MBR has been saved successfully to “C:\Users\Terry S\Documents\MBR.dat”
20:28:26.808 The log file has been saved successfully to “C:\Users\Terry S\Documents\aswMBR.txt”