conis
08-17-2008, 02:44 PM
Yeah well...
A few days ago, after a number of issues during boot (as in the screen suddenly goes black and PC crashes...) I somehow managed to get it fixed and able to boot all the way through. This was after sitting,shut off off for 10 days.
After I got everything all working, went through and did backup, removed unused software and defraged. Good to go for 2-3 days running 24/7.
Then I started getting the "services and controller app has encountered a problem and needs to close..." errors, with random "services.exe" has encountered a problem" etc. All the same symptoms as described above; machine would basically lock up... and then require a manual shut down.
I am running win firewall and AVG antivirus with malware. I don't open attatchments or peruse iffy sites. In otherwords... web wise.
This morning, AVG picked up a file in C:/windows/system 32 which was a string of numbers/digits.dat , quaranteeed the file and said it was a "LOP" spyware/malware trojan horse... not a lot info was given...
So, perused the net. Backdoor.alop? Regardless of times deleted, it would reappear on a reboot however with different characters/digits.dat. It wouldn't go away.
Tried MS malware removal update. Nothing. still there.
Looked at removal software. Didn't try that.
What I did try that so far has seemed to work was doing a system restore from 6 days earlier...
Clean boot, mystery file gone. Several scans of system 32 and reboots, and no re occurance. Rescanning the entire machine after full windows updates and AVG update. See what happens, next.
I am wondering if the mystery.dat file was cause by defragging the PC which may have snarled something up? Or if it actually was a spyware file at all but something AVG intrepreted it as being?
Who knows. Something was creating the error during boot. and things seemed to go downhill from there.
My story and I am sticking with it... Fingers crossed.:confused:
A few days ago, after a number of issues during boot (as in the screen suddenly goes black and PC crashes...) I somehow managed to get it fixed and able to boot all the way through. This was after sitting,shut off off for 10 days.
After I got everything all working, went through and did backup, removed unused software and defraged. Good to go for 2-3 days running 24/7.
Then I started getting the "services and controller app has encountered a problem and needs to close..." errors, with random "services.exe" has encountered a problem" etc. All the same symptoms as described above; machine would basically lock up... and then require a manual shut down.
I am running win firewall and AVG antivirus with malware. I don't open attatchments or peruse iffy sites. In otherwords... web wise.
This morning, AVG picked up a file in C:/windows/system 32 which was a string of numbers/digits.dat , quaranteeed the file and said it was a "LOP" spyware/malware trojan horse... not a lot info was given...
So, perused the net. Backdoor.alop? Regardless of times deleted, it would reappear on a reboot however with different characters/digits.dat. It wouldn't go away.
Tried MS malware removal update. Nothing. still there.
Looked at removal software. Didn't try that.
What I did try that so far has seemed to work was doing a system restore from 6 days earlier...
Clean boot, mystery file gone. Several scans of system 32 and reboots, and no re occurance. Rescanning the entire machine after full windows updates and AVG update. See what happens, next.
I am wondering if the mystery.dat file was cause by defragging the PC which may have snarled something up? Or if it actually was a spyware file at all but something AVG intrepreted it as being?
Who knows. Something was creating the error during boot. and things seemed to go downhill from there.
My story and I am sticking with it... Fingers crossed.:confused: