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I was handed a PC a while ago to help fix. It was not a work PC but instead one that a director had at home that was not working and I forgot about it until this week. What a mess. I wanted to write about this problem because the troubleshooting was a little complex and I got to use tools that I had not used before.

A Virus and a computer

First of all the PC was infected by more than one virus. The RPC connector would fail after a few minutes of use and the computer would reboot. I could not install any antispyware software or antivirus software because the installer service was corrupt and every time that I would drop Stinger from McAfee on the machine through a USB drive it would immediately get infected with the virut.b virus. Good thing was that when I plugged the usb thumb drive back into my main PC the virus would be found and removed from all of the files. Read the rest of this entry »