Hey, I managed to get my computer infected with something very similar to the infection described in the "My HDD is failing as we speak? urgent help required" thread a little less than 4 hours ago.
By the time I found the thread, I had no desktop icons anymore, the start menu and tray were respectively empty and not working (icons were blank sheets and gave error messages when clicked), and more or less my entire hard drive was inaccessible.
I downloaded MalwareBytes, found 28 infections, removed them. Downloaded HiJackThis, but didn't edit anything with it. Downloaded combofix, and ran it successfully.
I now have recovered my desktop icons, my hard drive is accessible, and things seem to have been returned to normal except for what seems to be just one thing: only 2.84 Gb out of my 4 Gb of RAM appears to be usable.
Any help you could offer would be very much appreciated, as I really have no idea how to go about correcting this.
System:
Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
Model: Notebook
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.2GHz and 2.2GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00Gb (2.84 Gb usable)
Sytem Type: 32-bit Operating System
Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505)
P.s. I'm running MalwareBytes again, I'll post the log when it's done.
By the time I found the thread, I had no desktop icons anymore, the start menu and tray were respectively empty and not working (icons were blank sheets and gave error messages when clicked), and more or less my entire hard drive was inaccessible.
I downloaded MalwareBytes, found 28 infections, removed them. Downloaded HiJackThis, but didn't edit anything with it. Downloaded combofix, and ran it successfully.
I now have recovered my desktop icons, my hard drive is accessible, and things seem to have been returned to normal except for what seems to be just one thing: only 2.84 Gb out of my 4 Gb of RAM appears to be usable.
Any help you could offer would be very much appreciated, as I really have no idea how to go about correcting this.
System:
Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
Model: Notebook
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.2GHz and 2.2GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00Gb (2.84 Gb usable)
Sytem Type: 32-bit Operating System
Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505)
P.s. I'm running MalwareBytes again, I'll post the log when it's done.
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