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Old 09-14-10, 04:28 AM   #1
HunterICX
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Default Tech Vent: share your frustration!

Suffered some PC problems and you managed to fix it after some frustration or it didn't...and you need to vent a bit?

share the frustration

My entry:

I was googling when I clicked a linked...the page loaded fine but some ad on it seemed to be a malware trap or something as my Avast springed into action with 30 virus alerts all of the risks where vaulted...good.

Now I goofed up because without looking I just emptied the vault...and I decided to do something else....suddently my explorer.exe stopped working and I forced it to close and restarted it in the task manager.
just for the sake of it I restarted the computer as probally avast's action shaked my system a bit.

I rebooted, windows log in...no windows log on sound played off....task bar blocked....okay???
opened firefox which locked up shortly after and before I knew it whole explorer.exe locked up and task manager didn't work nor exiting windows my Alt-F4 or tapping the power button worked.

reset...rebooted and logged in aaand same problem
but this time the task bar disappeared

rebooted in safe mode + network, and I looked at the log files of avast....those 30 files that where vaulted and deleted by me where some important system files in the system32 folder of windows however they seemed to be infected by the malware I googled the malware and it seemed some severe one called win32.stuxnet

so loaded a recovery point and restored my system to a week before, ofcouse my Avast had to be reinstalled as the recovery points was on the date my Avast did a mayor update.
today I'll have to do some scans to make sure the bugger is complelty wiped of my drive.

It reminded my how much pain I would like to inflict on those bastards who make these malware and viruses.

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