zarathustra1900
August 16th, 2005, 09:01 PM
Hello:
Hopefully I can add some incredibly useful information for someone out there, and moreso, request some serious help from all of you.
Excuse if this does not *precisely* belong within Wilders, however, I have been up 4 days and nights on this and as a constant lurker wanted to contribute SOMETHING.
In brief, hard drive reels, constantly running on application usage of various sorts. Thought I had virus
I own a Toshiba, XP Pro, (NTFS), P4. Opera, ALL Diamond CS products, RegGuard, Cyberscrub, ran Kaspersky as my AV religiously, but am a serious convert to NOD32. Outstanding software. My point is I am well protected, do not particulary visit high risk sites, but one never knows...
downloaded and ran Ewido and others...all of reasonable repute. Nothing ever found and convinced I did not have a virus or Trojan. Occurs in several processes.
Toshiba has rep for overheating. Been doing some serious overclocking and thought it was overheating.
Cleaned up registry, HD checked in every possible way that can be done within computer ... downloaded sofware for reducing CPU temp, checking temp, etc.
...I am in Europe, local phone is not free, 56k at best modem connect..yes, I am tired and not a happy camper.
At any rate,
NOD32 has a handy little view of all files read in real time scanning.
I see strings of files blip which occur EXACTLY at the same time as my hard drive hangs.
a long string: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."
ANSWER: A search of files brought up a few recent wipes. Only a couple. "RECYCLER" had several MB of old files as well. Now removed in the normal system process of Recycle bin/recycler remove process.
Get this. The M@#$ F@#$#@ Wipe program "Cyberscrub" which I had used for ages was NOT completely deleting some files.
I have been aware sometimes it would not be able to delete files even after reboot. When wiped or half wiped, the file changes with no extension to a VERY long string of letters as above. I would simply select ignore and continue and as they were "scrambled" and unreadable, deleted normally most of time...BUT the app has ascrewed up recently leaving files in this way.
Having installed and uninstalled, RESTORED system settings, ETC ETC!!http://www.wilderssecurity.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=44#
...the culprit, therefore, has been previously erased programs and files, renamed this very long string, under the same directory and name (as they were reinstalled) and the machine is still going to these files in between the new proper files and hanging.
I have wiped system folders, backups, windows apps, as much as I can wihtout causing system errors to clean up XP and system.
Most of these files, and all system files I erased are regenerated. The system is going over these long string semi-wiped file strings before reaching the new corrected ones and hanging. Creeping along half-wiped file, real file, half wiped file, real file. Slow as hell.
SOLUTION:
Please help, I am fried at this point. I don't know.
Upon using Search, ALL of the system folders (yes hidden as well) I cannot locate. Even delete them to recycle bin would be fine and through RECYCLER. I do not have to wipe them.
But they remain, somehow, suspended in some place which I do not know how to reach.http://www.wilderssecurity.com/newthread.php?
do=newthread&f=44#
I should not say exaclty that as NOD32 sees them during routine active scanning, and they will, oddly, briefly pop up I notice on the search page when I open another program or previosly erased file for a second.
I goto the file location shown which actually I could view briefy while accesing another program file with similar problem that I COULD find using the Windoze search feature, and cannot find the file "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." etc.
#1Does anyone know where I can access these files? DOS, Safe Mode, I don't know. I am exhausted at this point. Is there something involved related to NTFS as to why I cannot locate these files on the C:\ ?
#2 Where would they be exaclty? Hidden file "RECYCLER" does not show them.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
Apologies for length. Hopefully this may help another perplexed by same problem.
HJ
Hopefully I can add some incredibly useful information for someone out there, and moreso, request some serious help from all of you.
Excuse if this does not *precisely* belong within Wilders, however, I have been up 4 days and nights on this and as a constant lurker wanted to contribute SOMETHING.
In brief, hard drive reels, constantly running on application usage of various sorts. Thought I had virus
I own a Toshiba, XP Pro, (NTFS), P4. Opera, ALL Diamond CS products, RegGuard, Cyberscrub, ran Kaspersky as my AV religiously, but am a serious convert to NOD32. Outstanding software. My point is I am well protected, do not particulary visit high risk sites, but one never knows...
downloaded and ran Ewido and others...all of reasonable repute. Nothing ever found and convinced I did not have a virus or Trojan. Occurs in several processes.
Toshiba has rep for overheating. Been doing some serious overclocking and thought it was overheating.
Cleaned up registry, HD checked in every possible way that can be done within computer ... downloaded sofware for reducing CPU temp, checking temp, etc.
...I am in Europe, local phone is not free, 56k at best modem connect..yes, I am tired and not a happy camper.
At any rate,
NOD32 has a handy little view of all files read in real time scanning.
I see strings of files blip which occur EXACTLY at the same time as my hard drive hangs.
a long string: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."
ANSWER: A search of files brought up a few recent wipes. Only a couple. "RECYCLER" had several MB of old files as well. Now removed in the normal system process of Recycle bin/recycler remove process.
Get this. The M@#$ F@#$#@ Wipe program "Cyberscrub" which I had used for ages was NOT completely deleting some files.
I have been aware sometimes it would not be able to delete files even after reboot. When wiped or half wiped, the file changes with no extension to a VERY long string of letters as above. I would simply select ignore and continue and as they were "scrambled" and unreadable, deleted normally most of time...BUT the app has ascrewed up recently leaving files in this way.
Having installed and uninstalled, RESTORED system settings, ETC ETC!!http://www.wilderssecurity.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=44#
...the culprit, therefore, has been previously erased programs and files, renamed this very long string, under the same directory and name (as they were reinstalled) and the machine is still going to these files in between the new proper files and hanging.
I have wiped system folders, backups, windows apps, as much as I can wihtout causing system errors to clean up XP and system.
Most of these files, and all system files I erased are regenerated. The system is going over these long string semi-wiped file strings before reaching the new corrected ones and hanging. Creeping along half-wiped file, real file, half wiped file, real file. Slow as hell.
SOLUTION:
Please help, I am fried at this point. I don't know.
Upon using Search, ALL of the system folders (yes hidden as well) I cannot locate. Even delete them to recycle bin would be fine and through RECYCLER. I do not have to wipe them.
But they remain, somehow, suspended in some place which I do not know how to reach.http://www.wilderssecurity.com/newthread.php?
do=newthread&f=44#
I should not say exaclty that as NOD32 sees them during routine active scanning, and they will, oddly, briefly pop up I notice on the search page when I open another program or previosly erased file for a second.
I goto the file location shown which actually I could view briefy while accesing another program file with similar problem that I COULD find using the Windoze search feature, and cannot find the file "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." etc.
#1Does anyone know where I can access these files? DOS, Safe Mode, I don't know. I am exhausted at this point. Is there something involved related to NTFS as to why I cannot locate these files on the C:\ ?
#2 Where would they be exaclty? Hidden file "RECYCLER" does not show them.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
Apologies for length. Hopefully this may help another perplexed by same problem.
HJ