Most annoyingly i can browse to regedit.exe with firefox i just can't open it! Once i get the white screen of doom its virtually impossible to beat it on start up, worst still if i could get a CMD up it wouldn't be an admin instance running, unless someone knows a trick like Sudo/SU. F*ck i miss a good terminal EDIT, found many ways to bring up an admin CMD, but the boot process beats me
not sure if you have tried this , but if you have an extra machine that you don't use any more could you possible just boot the computer you are working on and then remote in to it and run CLI/CMD from there? Could be worth a try. Remoting in my change the permissions you have on it. I'm sure you have already tried booting in to safe mode, all 3 versions of it?
doubtful as those services have to be activated during boot i believe so if it's knocking explorer.exe to the floor then sure as hell there not leaving those services up.
found this thread on the ubuntu forums.. you might try getting your windows partition booting from bios.. I can't really diagnose it from here.. I'd have to see what's going on before it gets supermonkied post how it goes burns.. it sounds like needs to be kevin sorbo'd and yohaned with longweights hand http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11281581&postcount=18
It was just a thought, not sure if the remote process is the same as the normal local process for booting in to the OS. I'm sure that a lot of processes are the same but are all of them the same? The thought from above was when your computer only loads some of the OS features until you finish the log on ( I was thinking that the virus needed to complete the log on process local to be enabled that was the thought process any way) but I am in no way a programmer so it was just a thought
Just did that as asked upon the buntu forum, Gave no results in Terminal Gave output as to HDD type but no other info
Indeed, sounds like computer mega aids. Keep fighting it, I'll be interested to see how this turns out.
if you can, download the latest malwarebytes anti-malware, and run it in chameleon mode for those that aren't aware, chameleon mode hides the details of the program, so malware doesn't block it from running if you have it on a machine already, you can copy the chameleon folder to a memory stick, or cd, if you copy it to a cd you will need to copy to the hd of the machine you want to run it on, as it will try to download the program, if it isn't already installed.
Shall try that, just got to reinstall w7 to do that... would be the 8th time today so not jumping at it
actually thikning about it - stick mbam on there and run the free trial for active protection, see if that stops the malware from starting/installing in the first place, might also give you clue where its coming from.
the major problem i have is even booting in safe mode with CMD prompt it fails to present the CMD. I just ran MBAM with no results on a fresh install and only the network driver installed, shall progress until it falls over.
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no partitions on sda? what's "fdisk -l" show.. from what you posted it's booting in bios mode on the live too.. be nice to know if your windows partition is booting in uefi mode btw you'd think the major antivirus makers would have a solution by now.. they've got all the time and money to put into these problems (that's if they don't create the viruses themselves- just to be the first to come out with the solution)
default install is mbr with two partitions- that's why it's so puzzling.. there should be no way for it to rise from nowhere- I dunno what's going on over there but it sounds kind of unbelievable- like something a troll would make up in a computer forum I'm sure it's real but I'd like to know exactly where it's hiding.. (my guess is some crack- as I'm sure it's not pebcak) maybe it got attacked from the back http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...e-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html
After this many days of fighting this dam problem i find this slightly insulting to read suggesting that i might be trolling, I've never trolled. With regards to 7 installing, i wasn't aware that it installed in two different modes 'Bios' or 'UEFI' I shall dig into installing in UEFI mode and report back, the most important thing this morning is the bios update.