BSOD

[Heathen]

I got a BSOD on my w7.
I thought I had a virus but checked and malwarebytes says I'm clean.
I know that doesn't mean much though.

I got it from an .exe called x-force generator.exe. Yeah, I know, I am stupid. I forgot an old password and got desperate. Now i have a virus and feel stupid.

Anyways, I have bsod'd a few times and finally came for help.

Is there any error log I can show you guys or anything to help you help me?

[sdavis117]

Back up any files you need, and reformat the drive.

[Heathen]

:[ I know. Anything else?

[StankBacon]

open the task manager and right click on the file and open file location to see where it is and delete it..

if you cant, start, run, msconfig and go to the startup tab and uncheck anything that is not supposed to open at startup, reboot, then try to delete the bad files.


-edit- a little bit of googleing has led me to believe that your fucked, and a reformat for this particular virus is your only option.... who knows tho.

[Heathen]

open the task manager and right click on the file and open file location to see where it is and delete it..

if you cant, start, run, msconfig and go to the startup tab and uncheck anything that is not supposed to open at startup, reboot, then try to delete the bad files.

Its not in my task manager :/ I saw it was once but I ended it. Haven't seen it since.

E: not in msconfig>startup either.

[Heathen]

Google has led me to believe the very same :[[[[

[Cortexian]

Amateurs and their inability to compute safely. :saddowns:

Next time scan the questionable file after downloading it and after extracting it (if required).

[Heathen]

Amateurs and their inability to compute safely. :saddowns:

Next time scan the questionable file after downloading it and after extracting it (if required).

I usually do :[

This is my first virus in 17 years of life.

Seriously upset.

E: second.

[Heathen]

If I reinstall w7 and let everything go into windows.old, would that suffice?

No, right?

[StankBacon]

it should, you just have to be very careful what you take back out of that folder.

[Heathen]

thats GREAT news actually.

[Cortexian]

Yea run a scan on the .old folder after your reinstall, nuke bad things, profit.

[Wakeboy1337]

Freelancer has the right idea. I know what it feels like to get your first virus. I got my first when I was like 15, I'd been computing since i was 5 :/

[Cortexian]

I have yet to experience this phenomenon on my PC, I got plenty of viruses on my old schools PC's though. However I kinda treated the school computers as an online testing ground, if it breaks who cares
:realsmug:

[FRain]

I got owned by viruses back in September '08 and was unable to restart my computer without the virus spamming christianity.com (which is a good page, actually but for some reason when it opened it it gave me a virus) and had to just nuke the site from orbit.

[paladin]

ha w7 = :\

[Wakeboy1337]

Heathen you just may be the first person to get a virus on Win 7 :O

[Heathen]

No kidding.

The bugger is gone and everything is rolling smoothly.

Wont be making the same mistakes again, thanks guys.