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Need a little help.
I have an ASUS. K52F
I've had a couple spam windows pop up using Firefox. I would just close them and continue on my business.
Tonight I got about 30 pop up messages with a heading of "system message-write fault error"
Then I got "hard disc failure detected" and it shut down.
Anybody got some help?
Sounds like you need to take an immediate image of your hard drive and replace it. Its likely on its way out. Don't use it until you can get a good image, or you run the risk of losing all your data.
It could also be spyware that installed on your system that throws a bunch of bogus error messages. Any clicking sounds coming from the drive? Do you have the install DVD with Windows on it?
It sounds like a trojan. What happens next is a rootkit is downloaded via trojan.Originally Posted by Musashi
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Your computer and your guns and ammo all have viruses. You should give them all to me and I'll give them back after I fix them.
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If it is the HD crapping out, go with what 00tec said. If it's spyware, here's a useful article that got me up and running once:
http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/20...-2010.html?m=1
Malwarebytes is the only spyware remover that has worked for me.
http://download.cnet.com/windows/mal...nt;contentBody
I started with the free version, but quickly went with the paid version once I saw how well it worked. I've been spyware/malware free ever since. Worse case scenario is back up your files online or to an external, and re-install the OS. If that doesn't work out, get yourself a MAC and you won't have to worry about that crap anymore.
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If your system shut down, then it's likely the hard drive crapping out, and not bogus error messages from malware. Hope you got a backup.
That said, you should still be running virus and trojan protection, and I second the motion for malwarebytes, after you get your data backed up and/or replace the hard drive.
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Well I downloaded Malwarebytes. And did some cleaning up. Just backed up documents and pictures etc to CDs and DVDs after scanning them.
I'm back up and running but I continue to get a Adobe install that pops up about every 5 minutes. It isn't affecting anything else as far as I can tell but it is annoying. If I can't get it all cleaned up I'm going to swipe the whole system clean and start over. I just had to make sure I saved my stuff. everything else is easy to replace!
How old is the hard disk?
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