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MissRibena
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Hi everyone
I was reformatting a friend's computer that had been riddled with viruses, spyware, the works, at the weekend. She had bought it from a guy who turned out to be a cowboy with hindsight and had no drivers, no windows cd, miscellaneous wires in the tower unit not connected to anything etc. CD ROM drive was labouring and I had my doubts that it would make it. Anyway, HDD gave up just as I returned it to her and was loading on the printer driver. On rebooting, I got the Blue Screen of death with STOP message basically saying that HDD was inaccessible and no amount of Safe Mode etc. type booting could bypass it.
This would not be all that surprising, except my other friend has just phoned to report the same thing with her computer. She was equally neglectful as regards anti-virus software etc but it was a Dell, so not a total cowboy job.
Could these incidents be related? Is there some death-knell virus out there at the moment or is it all coincidental?
Thanks a mil
Rebecca
I was reformatting a friend's computer that had been riddled with viruses, spyware, the works, at the weekend. She had bought it from a guy who turned out to be a cowboy with hindsight and had no drivers, no windows cd, miscellaneous wires in the tower unit not connected to anything etc. CD ROM drive was labouring and I had my doubts that it would make it. Anyway, HDD gave up just as I returned it to her and was loading on the printer driver. On rebooting, I got the Blue Screen of death with STOP message basically saying that HDD was inaccessible and no amount of Safe Mode etc. type booting could bypass it.
This would not be all that surprising, except my other friend has just phoned to report the same thing with her computer. She was equally neglectful as regards anti-virus software etc but it was a Dell, so not a total cowboy job.
Could these incidents be related? Is there some death-knell virus out there at the moment or is it all coincidental?
Thanks a mil
Rebecca