hey, just a virus question i was wondering if anyone could help me out....
i was playing eq, and when i shut it down, programs started to not fuction, so i restarted my computer. (ATTN: i do not think the virus, if it is a virus, has anything to do with eqemu... these things are sometimes just a coninsidence)
when i restarted the computer, things were slow, and i noticed the computer was "thinking" all the time (u know, when the little light under the power button flashes like there was some background activity). Tried running a virus scanner (an updated McAffee virus scan and firewall professional version) and i kept on getting a blue screen saying there was a write error to drive C: and that data may be lost.
freaking out at this point i shut off the computer. Starting it up again i got the dreaded message: "opperating system not found"
ACK!!!!!!!! Running around the room screaming at this point, i created a boot floppy with my sister's computer and tried to access my two hard drives. I couldn't, so i tried to format, but it said "no fixed disks present" or something.
Went into the system's bios.... AND THE SETTINGS WERE CHANGED!?!?! i thought viruses couldn't change that.... (which leads me to beleive it's not a virus...) The bios was not detecting any hard drives (even with autodetect) and the floppy drive setting was changed to 720kB instead of 1.44Mb.
I am SO lost right now it's not even funny. My OS is winME (don't laugh, it worked fine before this...) and I have 2 hard drives. One (drive C
is 40Gb, and the other (drive D
is 60Gb... Please help...
***and do remember, i do not think it was eqemu that did this***