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I'm guessing your USB port is corrupted.

Maybe de-fragmenting your files will counteract the virus and speed it up a little?

Last edited by JeanTheFox (2010-09-13 20:31:32)

Does your SAFE MODE work?

Start it with networking.

JeanTheFox wrote:

I'm guessing your pen drive is corrupted.

Maybe de-fragmenting your files will counteract the virus and speed it up a little?

I don't think it's the pen drive itself but the thing that detects pen drives.

Nevermind I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Last edited by Ace-Of-Hearts (2010-09-13 20:28:46)

cheddargirl wrote:

Yeah, last night my poor dear laptop was infected with something known as the Bredolab. and it is very, very evil. It was detected by Windows Defender and Avast was good enough to block most of the threats brought in by Bredolab, but my laptop managed to get messed up anyway and I still managed to get problems on start-up. Aside from that, I noticed something pretty terrible after Bredolab did some damage - my laptop can no longer detect when a insert a pen drive. 

I'm still trying to remove the damage as much as possible [here's hoping Malwarebytes will kill the thing once and for all], but I'm still wondering if you had any advice on trying to remove Bredolab and it's damages.

Hmm.. That's pretty bad.

When things like that happen to me normally I just re-install Windows (or whatever operating system I am using). Normally even if you have a antivirus a bad virus never comes off.

You can also try system restore. Try to restore to a point before the virus.

Hope that helps cheddargirl! 
@JeanTheFox
Defragmenting a hard drive does not take off any viruses. What that utility does is that it takes all the files that have been moved alot (fragmented) and moves them to there relavant place in the harddrive. It only speeds up your computer if you have no viruses and a small hard drive.

JeanTheFox wrote:

I'm guessing your pen drive is corrupted.

Maybe de-fragmenting your files will counteract the virus and speed it up a little?

I don't think the pen drive is corrupted because my brother's laptop can detect it just fine; I'm pretty sure it's my laptop that's the problem.

I've never heard of counteracting a virus via defragmentation. Do you know what the logic is behind defragmentation to stop a virus?

[ooh, Malwarebytes just finished scanning, let me reboot my computer to see if Bredolab was finally squashed for good]

cheddargirl wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

I'm guessing your pen drive is corrupted.

Maybe de-fragmenting your files will counteract the virus and speed it up a little?

I don't think the pen drive is corrupted because my brother's laptop can detect it just fine; I'm pretty sure it's my laptop that's the problem.

I've never heard of counteracting a virus via defragmentation. Do you know what the logic is behind defragmentation to stop a virus?

[ooh, Malwarebytes just finished scanning, let me reboot my computer to see if Bredolab was finally squashed for good]

Hate to break it but, there is no logic behind what she said as I explained earlier. Good luck with your dilema. 

DistantVisit wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

DistantVisit wrote:

@JeanTheFox
Defragmenting a hard drive does not take off any viruses. What that utility does is that it takes all the files that have been moved alot (fragmented) and moves them to there relavant place in the harddrive. It only speeds up your computer if you have no viruses and a small hard drive.

I know that it speeds it up, hopefully that will counteract the virus if it's slowing down the computer.

Sure it will speed up the computer but the virus won't be off. So with your suggestion her computer might gain speed but all her information, passwords, and ect will be given to the creator of that virus.

I didn't say that it would totally stop it, I just said it will help her computer a little.

And now that sounds stupid because that's exactly what cheddargirl asked for.

Last edited by JeanTheFox (2010-09-13 20:42:50)

DistantVisit wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

DistantVisit wrote:

Sure it will speed up the computer but the virus won't be off. So with your suggestion her computer might gain speed but all her information, passwords, and ect will be given to the creator of that virus.

I didn't say that it would totally stop it, I just said it will help her computer a little.

I never said that you said that. I did a bit of research on the virus and according to what I read this infection is sort of a portal because it downloads other malware into your computer. So even if you take it off you may still have more malware. And, your suggestion of defragmenting defeats the purpose of trying to take it off. 

Okay, don't de-fragment. That would bring the malware closer to your important files, right? Sorry.

So should she cut connection from the internet until she figures out what to do?

JeanTheFox wrote:

DistantVisit wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

I didn't say that it would totally stop it, I just said it will help her computer a little.

I never said that you said that. I did a bit of research on the virus and according to what I read this infection is sort of a portal because it downloads other malware into your computer. So even if you take it off you may still have more malware. And, your suggestion of defragmenting defeats the purpose of trying to take it off. 

Okay, don't de-fragment. That would bring the malware closer to your important files, right? Sorry.

So should she cut connection from the internet until she figures out what to do?

That's correct. 

When you defragment while you have a virus infection all it does is scamble the virus everywhere in the hardrive and it makes it more tedious to take the virus off. And, yes she should disconnect the internet while she scans for virus's and attempts to remove them. Removing them with the internet connected is pointless.

Sorry if I was a bit harsh it's just I was born a IT guy, and I get worried when others might suggest cheddargirl the wrong thing. You hit the target this time though. 

Usatt1337 wrote:

Try something called Free Windows Registry Repair It seemed to work when I got some sort a virus that latched onto my browser so that it redirects to random websites or something like that.

All that does is that it resets the applications you have on your computer to there default settings, so that's why you don't see the random popups. In this case, where cheddargirl has a virus it won't help. 

fg123 wrote:

Try using system restore?

I would of suggested that(EDIT: I did earlier  ) but it seems cheddargirl doesn't want to lose any documents. 

JeanTheFox wrote:

Perhaps as a last resort you could transfer your files onto a CD, no, several CDs, and wipe the hard drive?

Not the best thing to do~ Trust me.

Cd's and optical disks easily get scratched (nice pun isn't it  ) and one little scratch can cause the whole disk to be corrupt. A thumb drive would be handy but apperantly she can't open it.

@cheddargirl
Have you tried to go to computer and click 'Removable disk'? Maybe autoplay didn't open like it normally does.