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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2010, 02:10:31 AM »
once malwarebytes and what ever other scanners are done picking over your system

dl / install all of your drivers from scratch again.

the system may complain, but when offered a 'do it anyway option' do it..

if not offered, thats a problem.

you might be able to fix ie by upgrading it to a newer version.

i strongly recommend avoiding IE at all costs... any of the other big 4 browsers are better.

if you cannot get any browser to talk to the net, then you might be in real trouble.. maybe..

if you can get IE running, make sure it is not set to 'offline mode' that stupid switch disables all browsing..

you may end up making back ups of your important data and reinstalling if those things do not work out.

if you do install, please consider linux. some form of ubuntu, i like Mint.

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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2010, 02:15:03 AM »
actually, IE's not giving me that problem... So it has to be firefox... which really sucks because it has my log on info for a lot of sites including my main email, and stupid me, I can't remember that password...

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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2010, 11:04:04 AM »
i strongly recommend avoiding IE at all costs...

IE-8 is the WORST THING EVER!!!!! 
before I went with firefox, I "upgraded" my IE to version 8 -- for all of about an hour -- before going back to 7 (I would rather not even have internet at all, if all I had for a browser was IE-8)


as for the firefox problem -- you may just have to uninstall and reinstall.

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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2010, 08:12:48 AM »
Uninstalling and reinstalling would get rid of any saved Passwords, right?

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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2010, 12:07:06 PM »
UBCD4win is just to get it to boot an OS that isn't on the drive. This will let you run malwarebyte (in german) without the virus having a chance to load. It has other tools as well but in this case that is among the most important. What kind of problems were you having with it?

as far as getting your passwords out of firefox that is easy if you can get it to start. Go to Tools->Options->Security->Saved Passwords. that will bring up your list of saved usernames and passwords, you have to click show passwords to see anything but *s though.
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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2010, 06:04:24 PM »
Ok, well, I've got UBCD4Win loading onto a flash drive, my computer now isn't booting up at all, because I was an idiot and tried to do too much while Adaware was still scanning.

Edit: UBCD4Win can't verify after loading, that's the problem it's having.
 And my flash drive is apparently not bootable. damn.

I know about the password thing for firefox, I just have to go through and write them down...
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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2010, 06:30:22 PM »
cut n paste, save in your online email.

or copy your ff folder to a thumb drive and put it back once things have settled down.
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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2010, 07:15:29 PM »
well, now I can't do anything because my computer won't even boot up. I can get to boot options and bios settings, but that's it.

Anyone know of a way to get the computer to boot right into dos with a command prompt? if nothing else I can run a disk check...

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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2010, 07:43:35 PM »
once  your initial boot screen (black w/ bios info) goes away start hitting F8
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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2010, 07:57:53 PM »
I've never seen that bring up a dos command line I could use, and safe mode with command prompt doesn't work. It will not fully boot in any way

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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2010, 08:04:41 PM »
ah, ok, thats what i was getting at, was safe / command prompt

while i could do what needs done, in person, this will be very hard to E-do.

if you do the f8 and try to command prompt, whats the last thing before it dies?
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Re: need help with a fucked computer
« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2010, 11:13:08 PM »
Ok, so my computer will go to the "pick your mode" screen, regardless of what I pick, it will think for a second, then go back to the initial "gateway" screen, and I can go through that again, but nothing happens.

I figure I can either move the important files and such to another computer and then just start from scratch, or connect another computer and run malware bytes on my fucked one, problem is, I have no clue how to do any of that. I have at my disposal:
standard usb cables with the square jack on one end, like for printers
ethernet cable
firewire (my old, working computer doesn't have a firewire port though)
wireless internet
no money

can someone help me get my fucked computer unfucked?