When I turn my computer on and Windows loads up, after about 5 seconds the machine resets. Over and over again.

I can boot it in safe mode just fine.


The only recent things I've done to it recently are:

* Folding@Home suddenly turned up in my processes thing, and Im like what the f*** is that Im not folding for anyone, so I disabled it using that Autoruns program, as well as a couple of other things like the iTunes helper and Punkbuster and stuff. I've since re-enabled them and the problem is still here

* I turned on auto-updates for like the first time ever so I think i'm onto SP3 now or something. Oh and apparently I was the victim of software counterfeiting but it was all a big misunderstanding and I found a way around the warning messages. That was a while ago now and there haven't been any problems until now



This computer is old as hell and I've got half a mind just to trash it and buy a pre-built system from umart or something. If its something really obvious I've done wrong let me know so I can have myself a merry xmas plz


Best wishes!

Sounds like an RPC-style trojan. Try this ComboFix

Always solves my problems.

just buy new stuff, treat yourself;

although from msy not umart coz i know you are thrify like i am

how old are we talking maxe?

combofix.exe

lol nice one pinky ;)

its like telling new cs players to press f10 for extra cash...

how old are we talking maxe?

1990 something

512mb RAM old

u are right spookus i might look into this MSY s*** even tho their nearest store is like a tank and a half away qq

i am sorry i am having troui am sorry i am having trouble seeing all of your posts at once at 640 x 480ble seeing all of your posts at once at 640 x 480

ok in the process of backing up my s*** i think i found the problem


c:/my documents/resycled/boot.com



keeps redirecting all my google searches to some weird IP with an Online Shopping lander page


lolololol


f*** my life

you computer noob, how'd you get that s*** installed

it was probably my gf, shes a girl and therefore terrible with computers


i deleted all the /resycled/boot.com's and /recycled/'s and autorun.ini's on all my drives but the s*** is still restarting itself.


I will keep searching until i reach my goal

shes a girl and therefore terrible with computers

Fixed.

Definitely sounds like either a hardware or software problem. For sure.

haha

I was going to recommend taking it into Step @ CA.


he'd prolly put a rush on it for you just cause you're an awesome person.

ie Folder

spybot

combofix.exe

lol nice one pinky ;)

its like telling new cs players to press f10 for extra cash...

Yeah, I agree generally - don't trust me. However, this time you should judging by your problem. Otherwise, you can go google 'combofix' and find a more reliable source than me.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

When your computer software cracks the s***s in my experience its better just to backup then format. Once it's rooted its rooted and even after fixing things the system never seems to be the same.

Just out of curiosity, under Start up and Recovery settings under System is the Automatically Restart box checked?

I had s***ty video drivers once and they caused my computer to randomly restart when ever they caused a conflict. Unchecked that little box and problem solved, at least if it was still there it didn't f***ing restart my machine anymore.

it was probably my gf, shes a girl and therefore terrible with computers

When was Paveway on your PC?

well its fixed now

i dont think the boot.com virus was what was making it restart, ill check that System Auto Restart thing when i get home tomorrow morning


in the process of running a virii scanner to root out any traces of the first virus it found some more virii


virii all over the shop

virii all over the shop

Did you try ComboFix? Seriously, that is the best thing I've ever found. My boss keeps clicking on those stupid "Your computer is running slow. Click here to fix it." popups and installing random crap. So far ComboFix has found all of it for me.