Anyway, here's my problem. When my comp is on, every two or three minutes, the whole thing hangs up for about 15 seconds. Annoying.
I have no background programs running except MSN Messenger. I've gone to msconfig and killed all of the startup stuff except MSN Messenger and the System Tray. There's nothing in my StartUp Folder.
Anyway, last time I went to msconfig I found this interesting thing: There's a program there (under the startup tab) that is checked called "Driver32" and it runs c:windowssystemSCam32.exe - I thought this might be the problem, so I unchecked it. When I restarted, it was checked again... so I erased the file, only to find that it had been replaced when I restarted. That might be the problem? But I couldn't get rid of it. I even searched through the registry for stuff relating to it and found nothing.
And sometimes the problem just disappears, only to come back when I restart my computer again.
What about the Config.sys and the Autoexec.bat?
[This message has been edited by Threesixty (edited July 27, 2001).]
Config.sys is.... empty? There's nothing there. Never looked at it before, so I don't know if that is unusal, but I am using a laptop with wierd hardware.
Autoexec.bat, I killed it, it didn't help any.
I thought it might be a virus, too....but I figured it was scanned already....
It's probably the new one. I've heard about...let me see if I can find where I found the info...I thought I read it here, but I guess I didn't.....
Ha I found it...Aaron you going to want this. You definetly have the virus. It's called Sircam virus.
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]
here's an article (I haven't viewed either link yet...I just pulled it from AMDzone.
http://www.hwextreme.com/NewsPub/Stories/2001/07/24/9959709941.shtml
I read it at AMDzone just this Monday.....I really thought someone had posted it here.
what I read Monday:
Will everyone please check their systems for the Sircam virus. This is getting silly. For those of you that don't have it, or are smart enough not to open every attachement sent to you, thanks. For those of you who got infected, please take the proper measures. Check this story for some more info. It also has a link to Symantec with removal instructions.
If you go to the THIS STORY link, You'll find that it's a real nasty virus. Sends the virus threw it's own E-mail program, so you don't see it. It not only gets e-mails from your address book, but from you internet temp folders, too.....
You'd better start sending E-mails to those people in your Address book about this info. I was one of the victims of the, "I luv you bug" at my work. (not my system). Seems these guys like copying that virus.
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Thats all, i do these because one years ago i had a BIOS Virus just like that.
And don't trust Anti Virus, because in some rare circumtances they act like a "File Washer" or False Alarm Notification.
[This message has been edited by Yuna (edited July 27, 2001).]
I did check and it is sending info while I am idle, looks like a virus sign. It sends something out at quite regular intervals (about every two seconds) but its never anything very big. If the virus I have is older than Oct 30, I'm about to catch it, but if its not, can anyone suggest a free (or demo) scanner that would?
I'll post here if I find it.
Also, fortunatly, I use Hotmail for e-mail and I doubt it'll be able to use that to send e-mails out (I dunno if its smart enough to get through the web interface, especially as it was redesigned just days ago). I also have access to Hotmail through Outlook, but my current ISP blocks Hotmail support through Outlook (I have not the slightest idea why, but they're not doing it intentionally) so Mr. Virus can't send e-mail through that.
I wonder where I could have cought it - I haven't recieved any suspicious e-mail attachments recently, it just showed up. I was gone for 10 days recently, though, I bet someone in my family managed to catch it then, b/c that's about when it showed up.
Thanks Threesixty for knowing about it and giving me the tool to fix it :P
eerrrr: That site you gave says that they've stopped giving it out but they still give virus updates to people who have it.
EDIT: You doubleposted, eerrrr.
And yeah, remember we can edit & delete our own posts if you're registered?
-Ficedula
[This message has been edited by ficedula (edited July 27, 2001).]
And that third links says that it attaches itself to other executable progams....maybe it got a major one or something? Guess it's time for a reformat of the HD and installing windows from scratch.
If you read that link....(open the third link)
"Because the virus has its own email engine, copies of emails sent will not show up in a user's email client sent file."
The links says that it uses it's own E-mail program. Who knows...maybe it automaticly makes an account somewhere, or it just finds an open account within your IP connection.
Oh; you didn't used to be able to delete your own posts here (only mods could) but registered users have been able to delete their own posts for a while now. Can't remember exactly when it got turned on.
The hanging starts within minutes after my computer is turned on. Sometimes it happens about every two minutes, but sometimes the hangs are more than ten minutes apart. When it hangs, I can still move the mouse, the hard drive doesn't sound like it is grinding away (in fact, if it was grinding, it stops for the duration of the hang). Whatever I click or type during the hang all happens at once after the computer comes back. All sound stutters except MIDI (it continues playing normally), which is kind of wierd, since I use the Yamaha Software MIDI Synthesizer that comes with FF7, so something apparently still works while the hang is going on.
EDIT: Thought I might say that a little better.
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I was using my computer and I decided to sync it up with my Palm handheld device. I use ISDN to connect to the internet and only have one serial port, and my handheld device and ISDN modem both use a serial port. I told it to disconnect and it wouldn't, so I unplugged the ISDN modem. The computer still said it was connected and kept sending data off (about 4k every 2 minutes) for two hours, before I restarted it. Seems like my virus is trying to do something on the internet (forward itself probably). My October 30, 2000 Norton Virus Definition file did not detect it after I did a full hard drive scan. There is nothing suspicious in MSConfig and I am about to go digging deep in the registry.
If ANYONE knows any free virus scanner that would detect this, or a program to remove this particular virus (that is if you think you know what I have), please post here, or more preferably, e-mail me at [email protected] .
It still could be other things besides a virus, I guess.
It's a good idea to have something like this installed anyway.
Does anyone have any ideas what may be causing hangs like this?
Oh well.
Anyway
I'm almost done going through the system.ini and win.ini and I'm pretty sure its not in there. I also killed all of the processes going on in the background that you can't kill with Ctrl+Alt+Del and that didn't work.
I don't want to reformat until I get someplace to back up my files, I have too many things I need to back them up on ZIP disks or maybe even CDs. I will have to use another computer.