Re:virus: how many e-mails has the Sobig.F. worm released?

From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 20:01:05 MDT

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    [Sebby] yes, thats the screen im talking about. "enter DELete to enter setup" and all the rest.

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    [Sebby] well, it seems i can hear the HD spin-up when i turn it on...and it does try to read the cd drive....with continued spin(something it is supposed to do). the floppy light however does not go on...whether i put a disk in it or not. no beeps or sound...which is a bad thing i would assume.
      there is no sign that behind the darkened screen, anything is happening at all. i sort of thought i might have accidentally cooked the processor, but why would that happen at night? the coolest time of day? and why would i have seen that initial setup screen sitting there before i tried to reboot it? would something still be visible onscreen of a computer whose processor was fried??? thank you very much for your assistance in this dear Kalkor.

    [rhinoceros]
    The processor is not fried. It seems to be working and trying to run all the startup procedures (trying to find a bootable disk or CD). It just happened that the computer rebooted after a problem occured. Does it get into the BIOS setup when you hit Del?

    If it does, the problem is probably with your hard disk. The best case is if the disk is intact but the BIOS does not recognize it any more. You can try to fix that by getting into the BIOS setup by pressing Del and telling it to identify the disk (if it is an LBA disk) or specifically giving it the disk parameters from the manual (if it is not).

    The second best case is if the computer can see the disk, but the disk is not bootable any more because a system file was deleted or damaged. In this case, you'll have to boot from a CD (or a floppy disk -- it depends on your current BIOS setup settings) and then make the hard disk bootable again or even reinstal your OS.

    The worst case is if the hard disk actually crashed... 

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