Robert,<br> Yeah, I thought of pulling the bios battery, but the thing is nearly inaccessible and I gave it up after nearly disassembling the machine. If you thought of that too, then maybe it wasn't such a dumb idea after all. I'll try again before tossing the machine in the dumpster. Thanx for the response.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Robert Leyva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrflash818@geophile.net">mrflash818@geophile.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
For the M$ boxes, you might want to manually load clamwin into a USB jump<br>
drive, then copy to the infected box, then as<br>
_administrator_and_in_safe_mode_, try to have clamwin delete or quarantine<br>
what it finds.<br>
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This AV-nasty thing might even have some removal tools people have made.<br>
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For the linux box that won't fire up, perhaps you can pull the bios<br>
battery for, say 15min, then put back in, which will hopefully make the<br>
bios go back to factory default? Then I'd perhaps try chkrootkit, and<br>
clamav.<br>
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> Could use a little advice myself; apologies for the length of the comment.<br>
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</div><div class="im">> display "AV Guard," purporting to be an anti-virus program that had<br>
> identified malware on our system that it could remove (for a fee). Of<br>
> course, AV Guard is itself a virus.<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> I'm left with 3 questions:<br>
> 1) How can this virus hose the BIOS so one machine will not boot, and<br>
> another appears to have a failed power supply.<br>
> 2) Is there any way to revive my laptop, short of replacing the mother<br>
> board?<br>
> 3) Any of you guys need a nearly new battery for an Acer Extensa 1000?<br>
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