re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gary Moss
(2 messages posted)
The computer was fine until about 6am this morning, i turned it off, when i went
to use it tonight BAM i visited a webpage and blue screen of death. After that it
was blue screen of death for both my online games when i clicked on the icon. The
problem is its only a month old bought i might add to replace my old computer that
was suffering exactly the same problems, so if the harddrive is faulty im going to
sue the computer company, because they had my old machine in for repair at least
3 times last year with no improvement plus i must have bought abt 9 harddrives last
year to try and circumvent these issues because i dont have any knowledge :(
I also have to say that from long experience over two years of computer problems
im rather paranoid and convinced someones deliberately giving me viruses if thats
what it is, but ive given up telling people that or pleading for people to listen
because i know what the result is...:(
You wouldnt believe everything ive done to try and fix these issues, loads of stuff,
its a brand new machine and ive been reconnected to the net 3 days and here we go
again :( Theres no way on gods earth im self infected after my last machine i threw
away all disks and anything with data on from the past, i dont visit dodgy sites,
infact i basically just use it to play online games and check email, so if im infected
with a virus that survives a clean install how did i get it?
if its that malicious im inclined to think someones deliberately screwing with me?
You know how stressful and frustrating it is, and i dont have much knowledge. I have
reinstalled windows which is how im talking to you now but the first 3 instances
of booting i had to manually select drive as i got some weird message in dos abt
a screwy command kernel, but im afraid i dont have faintest idea about all this stuff
though i am a bright guy.
Ive just learnt abt making a restricted account but i already think the machines
in trouble even though this new install of windows appears fine, well see when warcraft
finishes installing in an hour whether it runs or not.
At this point ill take any advice or instruction you have to give mate theres no
way im spending loads of money again this year, this is a top gaming machine, only
a month bought £700 so please if you could help me find out whats going on here that
would be great.
Regards,
Gary
Norfolk UK
On Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 2:01 pm, MartinM wrote:
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>Sounds like a virus or malware (your Firewall will NOT stop you acquiring either,
>but I see you have Kapersky and some malware scanners), or possibly a failing HDD.
>
>Having some files that cannot be defragged is perfectly normal.
>
>CHKDSK validating the USN journal is itself OK (its XP's log of changes to any files,
>so other apps can tell if files have changed or not), but the fact it keeps checking
>means that something is corrupting the journal. Could be malware, failing HDD or
>XP's indexing service (which you should turn off).
>
>Before going any further, is your valuable data backed up ? You might be about to
>lose it :-(
>
>Next step, in view of "my firewall told me it was attempting to connect to a remote
>ip address" would be to post on a specialist malware forum immediately (a quick
search
>of this forum will give you some links).
>
>Your system sounds pretty thoroughly screwed up - do you have XP disks so you could
>do a repair install or a complete re-install ?
>
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