Psi*
Tech Monkey
I have not seen much here about virus issues. I believe that most of us "regulars" are smart enough to have an adequate prophylactic in place and just avoid *those* kind of web sites.
However, since no man is an island, aka I do have female friends that have considerable inertia in their thoughts (aka stubborn). I have a very attractive friend that persisted in drilling into a web site that her virus checker said "no no no no no no no no.... " well, you get the idea.
As a result, she asked me why her sound no longer played on her 5 y/o computer. Stupid me thinks the thing is actually dying. NOT!
Upon reboot, it does not.
We go buy a new machine which she really needed anyway & therefore was not a painful decision.
Today I pull the HDD out of the old machine praying that I will be able to get some her old data. By a quirk of fate I have the Thermaltake external sata dual drive box thingy. In a greater act of providence, the old HDD is sata. This little box is plugged into my Windows 7 system running Microsoft Security Essentials (I am cheap because I 5 systems that I live & die with ... free fits the budget really well).
Dropping the old drive into the external drive box & then steering in Windows Explorer over to drive F ... been 10 yrs since I last went that high in the alphabet ... I see all kinds of directories & files. YES! The data is good and availble. (It will be a greate night tonight!!)
However, a moment later MS SE pops up complaining about dos/alureon.a. Ugh. A few reboots later convinces me that MS SE cannot remove the ... I guess it is a spyware. I plug the Thermaltake into an XP machine. XP doesn't eve see the drive. The olde machine that the HDD came out of is XP, BTW.
Going back to Windows 7 & several net searches later, I find a link to Kaspersky Lab
TDSS rootkit removing tool. Also something called MBRCheck & not sure what it does, but report stuff I cannot understand. Never the less, after 1 reboot & running the TDSS rootkit removing tool alureon.a seems to be extracted!!
Anyone else had this issue? What did you do?
However, since no man is an island, aka I do have female friends that have considerable inertia in their thoughts (aka stubborn). I have a very attractive friend that persisted in drilling into a web site that her virus checker said "no no no no no no no no.... " well, you get the idea.
As a result, she asked me why her sound no longer played on her 5 y/o computer. Stupid me thinks the thing is actually dying. NOT!
Upon reboot, it does not.
We go buy a new machine which she really needed anyway & therefore was not a painful decision.Today I pull the HDD out of the old machine praying that I will be able to get some her old data. By a quirk of fate I have the Thermaltake external sata dual drive box thingy. In a greater act of providence, the old HDD is sata. This little box is plugged into my Windows 7 system running Microsoft Security Essentials (I am cheap because I 5 systems that I live & die with ... free fits the budget really well).
Dropping the old drive into the external drive box & then steering in Windows Explorer over to drive F ... been 10 yrs since I last went that high in the alphabet ... I see all kinds of directories & files. YES! The data is good and availble. (It will be a greate night tonight!!
)However, a moment later MS SE pops up complaining about dos/alureon.a. Ugh. A few reboots later convinces me that MS SE cannot remove the ... I guess it is a spyware. I plug the Thermaltake into an XP machine. XP doesn't eve see the drive. The olde machine that the HDD came out of is XP, BTW.
Going back to Windows 7 & several net searches later, I find a link to Kaspersky Lab
TDSS rootkit removing tool. Also something called MBRCheck & not sure what it does, but report stuff I cannot understand. Never the less, after 1 reboot & running the TDSS rootkit removing tool alureon.a seems to be extracted!!
Anyone else had this issue? What did you do?
