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virus disables antivirus and shuts down machine

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  • Virus
  • Hibernate
  • Windows Vista
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December 28, 2013 6:56:27 AM

My machine has been infected with an ugly virus. On a friday I turned off my machine by using the hibernate funtion. (I use windows 7) One day I came and turned on my machine and it took me to into my operating system it froze and took me to a screen that said something about a crash dump then it shut down. I restarted the machine and it took me too a blue screen and then it very quickly restarted and continued to do the same thing. I tried booting into safe mode, but the machine restarted by itself. I tried using the hirens boot disk but the machine restarts, i also tried an old linux disk but a screen comes up saying that it is booting the kernel and that is all i get, it just stays there and does not move on. To make things worse whenever the hard drive is connected to another machine it disables the antivirus and the machine shuts down. HEEEELP PLEASE I need my machine for work.

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December 28, 2013 7:08:10 AM

Sounds to me its more of a hard drive issue rather than a virus. If it is so important to you, you must have backups of whatever work you do. Buy another hard drive and reinstall your OS and then transfer your backup work to the new hard drive.
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December 30, 2013 2:00:26 AM

Its not a hard drive issue. The hard drive is an internal hard drive for my laptop. I took it out of the machine and connected it with a sata connector to another laptop with an updated antivirus. I did this after it had booted into windows and the machine shut down as soon as i connected the hard drive to it.
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December 30, 2013 4:29:56 AM

You are connecting and disconnecting hard drives while the power is on? Whether or not you are, still sounds like a hard drive issue but you are welcome to not even consider that.
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December 30, 2013 2:57:24 PM

Yes i am connecting it when the machine is on. I'm using a sata connector that has a usb interface and a case for the hard drive. So i'm plugging it in the same way i would an external hard drive and all the machines i plug it into shut down.
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December 30, 2013 4:43:53 PM

So all the machines you plug this hard drive into shut down, and you dont think its the drive?
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December 31, 2013 2:34:23 AM

Its basically an external. I only plugged it, autoplay was disabled, and I have not even had the chance to open it in windows because it shuts the machines down. Is it possible that a damaged external hard drive without a virus could shut a machine down when it is plugged in via usb?
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December 31, 2013 4:28:31 AM

It is quite possible yes. If it shuts down EVERY PC you put it on, its a pretty good indication that the drive is bad.
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