It did, so then I deleted the FBI folder.Ī Google search on “Presario CQ5210F” finds as the second hit, and following the Motherboard M2N68-LA link I find under ‘clearing the BIOS settings’ an item called ‘Clearing the BIOS password’, where it says to hold down the F10 key while booting, to get into the BIOS setup. Actually since I had never done this before I just renamed the folder first and rebooted with Windows to see if that worked. I deleted the folder – bingo – virus gone. I discovered them all in a nice little folder on the hardrive. Once there I went to the files identified earlier. The other thing (FBI virus), I booted from WDO and made a note of the files it said were part of the FBI virus. When it is recreated the definitions will be updated and you don’t need to be online. It is best to recreate the bootable flashdrive or CD on a non-infected machine just before running it on an infected machine. Two things: The flashdrive will not be updated with new definitions as it cannot be written to at that point. I remember when I used to run it from a CD-R disk and it would complain about not being able to update so I switched to the USB version and darned, if I remember correctly, I got that same message another time after that…and yes I was connected to the internet when those happened just routing usage not any infections known. :cheers:īTW: MS Updates the WDO engine and you have to refresh your media to get those updates to the best of my knowledge. It said it had killed it but must have missed something because it came right back. Thanks, I didn’t know about the inner workings of WDO only that it worked pretty well until I came up against the FBI virus on my cousins machine. I am currently running Malwarebytes Pro as an antivirus program. I have a HP Compaq Presario desktop running Windows 7 (64 bit). I have tried to press F2, F8, F10 buttons while restarting, but none of them interrupts the Windows start up.Ĭan anyone tell me how to (if necessary) reconfigure my computer to, when restarted with the WDO flash drive inserted, it will boot? Should I run WDO on my computer to see what it will pick up, if anything? Is there any particular reason that I SHOULDN’T run it unless a problem is known or suspected? – – in other words, is there any likelihood that running WDO would have any kind of negative effect?Īnother question: I tried to run WDO the other day, or at least see if I could, and something about my computer does not allow the WDO flash drive to boot ahead of Windows. The reason for this thread is this: I have now created a WDO flash drive for the next emergency (hopefully it won’t happen, but good to be prepared). I had problems creating a WDO bootable on my flash drive… anyway, long story short, I wound up taking my computer to a local shop where they proclaimed the best solution was to reload Windows (they saved all of my important data, so I was just out the money to pay them and a bunch of time to rebuild the computer and put back all of my preferences, etc… I tried to go to my wife’s laptop and download and install WDO to see if it would fix the problem. Awhile back I had a virus infection on my desktop which deleted a whole bunch of dll files on Windows 7, (my OS).
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