need help for a pvcrx650 with lots of viruses

lovely?

lovely?

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ok this vaio is only a year old, but a friend of my friends brought it to me and i wanna fix it for him. i cant load any anti-virus software, and the second i turn the computer on, everything goes a-wol and it freezes, i belive that there are numerous virus's in windows. i really want to help this guy out, and he told me that wiping everything from the hdd was ok, just dont wipe windows and a few picture files

maybe a freeware hdd wiping program???
 
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Wiping everything off of the drive without wiping Windows and some files? You would first have to slave the drive and copy the pictures from it to removable media hopefully small enough to fit on a floppy. Once the files are extracted you could try a repair install to get the basics running long enough to get something like AVG or PC-cillin on and start cleaning. But if a full version of XP is onhand and the programs can be reinstalled that were on it the one best option is "WIPE IT CLEAN"!

The XP installer can be used to delete partitions. But that requires a full or recovery not upgrade disk to help you there. For simply blasting the drive clean from a floppy boot disk one freeware is called Active Killdisk found at http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

Now if you have a cd writer how about a disk partitioning tool that will not only delete partitions off of a drive but create new ones as well? GParted live for cd is a free Linux partitioning tool better then Partition Magic and others for two simple reasons. 1) FREE! to download from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php 2) It can easily create NTFS and Fat32 and Fat16 partitions as well as Linux and others.
 
PC eye said:
The XP installer can be used to delete partitions. But that requires a full or recovery not upgrade disk to help you there. For simply blasting the drive clean from a floppy boot disk one freeware is called Active Killdisk found at http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
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You can parition and format and install with a upgrade the same as a full, they are the same. The only difference between them is the upgrade has one more file and thats the upgrade verification, you just get a better deal because you own a prior verision, not because its missing anything! Dont come back with some 20 min. speech, I have done it hundreds of times!!! With 98-98se-me-xp home -xp pro and 2000 upgrades!!!
 
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lovely? said:
ok this vaio is only a year old, but a friend of my friends brought it to me and i wanna fix it for him. i cant load any anti-virus software, and the second i turn the computer on, everything goes a-wol and it freezes, i belive that there are numerous virus's in windows. i really want to help this guy out, and he told me that wiping everything from the hdd was ok, just dont wipe windows and a few picture files

maybe a freeware hdd wiping program???
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Have you tried to boot it in safe mode?
 
StrangleHold said:
You can parition and format and install with a upgrade the same as a full, they are the same. I have done it hundreds of times!!! With 98-98se-me upgrades!!!
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Tell me how you were able to partition and format a drive without fdisk with 98 1st, 98SE, and ME upgrade disks alone and no set of boot floppies as well or no prior version of Windows installed? That would be a good one! :P
 
PC eye said:
Tell me how you were able to partition and format a drive without fdisk with 98 1st, 98SE, and ME upgrade disks alone and no set of boot floppies as well or no prior version of Windows installed? That would be a good one! :P
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Dont tell me you didnt know that 98-ME cds are bootable with fdisk and format?? Plus if you have one thats not bootable its easy to make one!
 
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StrangleHold said:
Dont tell me you didnt know that 98-ME cds are bootable with fdisk and format?? Plus if you have one thats not bootable its easy to make one!
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Upgrade disks generally lacked the partitioning tools while depending on either a set of startup floppies or the existing installation to run the installer after the drive is already partitioned and formatted. The disks that were bootable for direct installation were the full versions and 98SE for sure "did not have" fdisk is an uncompressed form for partitioning and formatting drives.

If you didn't have the original startup floppy you read the MS instructions for creating one. The installer lacked the abilty to do what fdisk did. XP was really the first version of Windows to include the partitioning tools as part of the installer. That shows you haven't really worked with different copies of 98SE right off. I've debugged enough 98 systems over the years.
 
StrangleHold said:
Have you tried to boot it in safe mode?
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i have unfortunately tried all of your requests to no avail. the computer freezes before anythi8ng happens on the screen now, and it is giving me this error :

lsass.exe-error
name not found

and i press ok, then it freezes
 
PC eye said:
Upgrade disks generally lacked the partitioning tools while depending on either a set of startup floppies or the existing installation to run the installer after the drive is already partitioned and formatted. The disks that were bootable for direct installation were the full versions and 98SE for sure "did not have" fdisk is an uncompressed form for partitioning and formatting drives.

If you didn't have the original startup floppy you read the MS instructions for creating one. The installer lacked the abilty to do what fdisk did. XP was really the first version of Windows to include the partitioning tools as part of the installer. That shows you haven't really worked with different copies of 98SE right off. I've debugged enough 98 systems over the years.
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um ownage? lol
 
lovely? said:
i have unfortunately tried all of your requests to no avail. the computer freezes before anythi8ng happens on the screen now, and it is giving me this error :

lsass.exe-error
name not found

and i press ok, then it freezes
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The file referred to there has various interpretations. But it seems your system has been infected by some type of virus or malware. You may want to review the listings at http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/lsass.exe.html

lovely? said:
um ownage? lol
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um ownage? More likely cleaning some background noise. The transmission at that end is often garbled! :P
 
PC eye said:
Upgrade disks generally lacked the partitioning tools while depending on either a set of startup floppies or the existing installation to run the installer after the drive is already partitioned and formatted. The disks that were bootable for direct installation were the full versions and 98SE for sure "did not have" fdisk is an uncompressed form for partitioning and formatting drives.

If you didn't have the original startup floppy you read the MS instructions for creating one. The installer lacked the abilty to do what fdisk did. XP was really the first version of Windows to include the partitioning tools as part of the installer. That shows you haven't really worked with different copies of 98SE right off. I've debugged enough 98 systems over the years.
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All 2000 and XP upgrade cds had partitioning tools

You need a boot floppy because older computers could not boot to the cd-rom, 90% of 98-ME cd are bootable
 
StrangleHold said:
All 2000 and XP upgrade cds had partitioning tools

You need a boot floppy because older computers could not boot to the cd-rom, 90% of 98-ME cd are bootable
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The 98 recovery disks like oem were obviosly bootable along with the full versions where the auto atart was seen. With the older upgrade disks Windows had to be running already for the auto run file to start once the disk was placed in the cd drive. With 95, 98, and ME you would boot with a startup floppy choosing the cd rom supported option to start the installer after the drive was already partitioned and formatted.
 
PC eye said:
um ownage? More likely cleaning some background noise. The transmission at that end is often garbled! :P
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just so i'm sure, did you just call stranglehold background noise?

EDIT: ok i have an idea, but i dont know if it will be safe. i can slave the virus ridden drive in the vaio, and then use my brothers norton antivirus to wipe it free of virus's right? or would his computer become infected the second i put the slave in?
 
it gives me this screen when i try to boot up:

then i press enter through safe mode, and it says

lsass.exe error
name not found
 
It appears your boot sector was damaged by the virus! You will more likely be better off performing a repair install just to get Windows running long enough to run the variety of "bug blasters" in order to avoid wiping the drive. As far as sticking another drive in to copy files at this time you definitely would risk copying infected files to a clean drive. NADA! For instructions on the repair install method available read the article at http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Normally when seeing that screen you would choose the "Last Known Good Configuration(your most recent settings)" option to see Windows corrected and load up normally again. As far as the "Lsass.exe" file found Microsoft has their own little list of articles to review on trojans and other things seen at http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?query=lsass.exe&catalog=LCID%3D1033&pd=&spid=1173&qryWt=&mode=r&cus=False&x=11&y=14
 
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