El Sitherino Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Well the other day my computer died, combination of a virus and some other thing i can't figure out. I'm trying to figure out what to do. If I should get this one fixed or if I should just buy a new computer. . I've been trying to post this but since I'm on my mom's old iMac it's hard to get on the forums. :\. Well I just wished to inform some of you as to why I won't be online for a while, just so noone worries . I'm trying to figure out what else I'm going to do, I'm having some trouble in school. It seems I still lack internal motivation to genuinely care about school :\. Anyway, see you all as soon as I figure out what to do, and I'm trying to see if I can salvage some things from my HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mex Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Try and fix it, get the Nortan Anti Virus trial version and run that, then get Adaware 6.0 and get rid of all the spyware. Or forgive me if the problem is worse. [Can't start up computer] It might be a trojan because if it is then you're motherboard is busted and you'll have to buy a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Good luck! =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Can't you run an Anti-virus utility to see if the BIOS is infected? If the BIOS is okay, then the core of the problem lies on your hard disk, and that should be easy enough to replace, if it's non-recoverable. Good luck in getting your PC sorted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted October 22, 2003 Author Share Posted October 22, 2003 it's not the virus that's the problem. It's that I can't even turn on the computer. I get to the sign on part then I cancel out to BIOS and it dies. The thing is before I shut down my comp I checked what was infected and it was only my uhmmm... "private" files, and some music files. I tried to clean them out but nothing would work I couldn't even move or delete the files. What bothers me is I remember that link Datheus gave me about the RIAA recruiting hackers to make a virus that goes through pirated files. but the thing that makes me troubled is that it not only got the 10 songs i downloaded but it infected all of my music files from my cd's. plus winamp. (don't think ill of me just because i've downloaded a few songs, they are only songs i enjoy that are from cd's of music i don't really care for. I purchase cd's quite often and I only download if there is just one song on the cd that i enjoy) I'm thinking of just scrapping the comp and buying a new computer but i'm wondering about how i'm going to get the money. they just increased taxes around here and my parents pay got cut so when I do work around the house I won't be able to be paid for a while, and businesses around here are shutting down, firing people, or they are only hiring people of certain age, race, gender. So I'm going to be having money problems now and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'll probably be offline for a few months. The Texas state government is pissing me off, they keep raising taxes for crap laws and bills. The taxes that were just raised and placed are so the Dallas Cowboys can get a new stadium even though they have a perfectly fine working stadium right now. They are also taking money out of the education system so they can pay the legislature to finish the redistricting policy which is ending up seperating people into minorital segments around the state. So we'll end up with just a mexican district, a white district, a black district. This stuff is really getting on my nerves. Not to mention they are cutting wellfare checks to the elderly and they are starting to take money from the social security of the elderly. I really worry sometimes about the state of our society. I know this doesn't have much to do with my losing a computer but It's affecting my ability to do things to get money, and such. With people losing their money at the rate they are I feel as though we are going back into another recession. Bush seems to be f*cking up the country more than I thought he would. I'm glad they are putting some of our tax money into the amber alert system but after seeing it only being used mostly on the more financially successful white class I fear that the child protection is focused more on the white business class and not on all children. You can see on the news that within 20 minutes of a girl from a rich family that goes missing is broadcasted on the news whereas it is weeks later that you hear about a middleclass/lowerclass hispanic girl that has been missing is finally posted on the news as missing then the next day they find the hispanic girl dead and the rich white girl is found alive and they parents are just constantly talking about it seeking media attention and the parents and family of the hispanic child get no help from police to find the killer of their child. I see this and I'm wondering why should my parents spend their hard earned money on police that don't even do their job. You see on the news that the kids that are found are 80% of the time found by volunteer rescuers that are ordinary parents with no training in rescue or crime prevention. I'm wondering why my elderly grandmother is having to pay crappy bills that do nothing for her or her community. The money they spend are spent to benefit the already wealthy people of our community. It upsets me that the rich get richer while the financially unstable classes are stuck losing money that they RIGHTFULLY earned. Sorry about my rant I'm just pissed off for so many reasons and it doesn't help that my only escape from this hell hole has been cut off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_One Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 It could be worse. You could have Arnie as your State Governor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Originally posted by The_One It could be worse. You could have Arnie as your State Governor He'd proabably lower all the taxes if everyone went to go se ehis mvoies.. .Myabe i should mvoe to Cali. Also, Insane, maybe you can find a cheap, old computer. They must have some somewhere. Muight as well give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 I see old 800mhz's for around $250-300 all the time in Austin (in the newspaper's classifieds). Cheap stuff, but it'll get the job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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