A few days ago my computer started acting crazy and finally Wednesday it went belly up. Wouldn't boot, no boot device detected.
I used my
Ultimate Boot CD to run some hard drive diags and found that the free space on my drive was being misrepresented. Any way I fixed that problem and viola, my drive would indeed boot again. However I still suspected that something was sneaking in under the radar upon boot, so I tried to run Malwarebytes Anti-malware and instantly it errored out.
Anyway to make a long story short, I had to boot into safe mode with networking, download MBAM again update it and run it. It found 2 instances of a generic downloader.trojan in my
windows\tasks folder. That bugger had been in there no telling how long and once it was gone, man, my computer runs like the OS was just installed. I've got quite a few programs installed on here and the first thing I noticed after finding and deleting the trojans was that the start menu worked instantly for any and all the many subfolders in there.
Don't know where I picked them up or why my AV didn't find these, and don't know exactly what tasks they were doing, but just thought I'd let you all know it's out there.
The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park': In one, a crazy businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be extinct. The other one is a film.
