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[mrklaw]

Anyone know anything about this? My computer just went tits up and doesn't seem to start at all - not even bringing up the WinXP booting screen.

Doing a system restore from CD ROM (OEM supplied) and it keeps bringing up this file. I'm getting a bit suspicious, but I have a firewall and virus scanner on, and anyway, surely a virus can't fuck up your PC so badly, can it? It was OK just yesterday.

Only concern I have is that i had flashget installed, which seemed very popup ad happy. Plus I installed diskeeper trialware, but thats about it.

Could just be a dead hard drive I guess.

 

[Blatz]

Go to www.protonic.com and ask the question. It's free tech support. They have always come through for me, and I've had some obscure issues before. Their only downside is it might take a day or two to get a response.

If you want anybody on here to help you shold probably give all your system info too.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Got this from http://forums.computing.co.uk/thread.jsp?forum=10&thread=32155&message=177760:

You're dead, phil. AXEL.DAV seems to be a German virus which snuck into my system a couple months ago.

Judging by its behavior, it looks like a very serious worm.

It seems to act in the same way that the Blaster worm did: copies itself in standard worm fashion, and eventually makes it impossible to start up the computer by restarting it as soon as it starts up.

If you do not reformat, do a deep system scan, or a system restore, this thing will eventually render your machine useless.

I thought I took care of this a while ago by doing a Norton scan, which got rid of *most* of the files, but it just popped up again. It's already copied itself to nearly every folder in my computer and will soon begin to force random reboots.

While I'm still able to type this to you, I'm strongly recommending that you get rid of this in any way possible.

Firewalls don't seem to help... I think AXEL.DAV might have come in through a spyware program or Trojan that I overlooked a long time ago.

Watch out. If you see any signs of AXEL.DAV on your computer, GET RID OF IT.

 

[mrklaw]

shit, and I was careful (norton+firewall)

Well I hope I can get the HDD back enough to get data off it. I can't format though because I only have a crappy recovery CD.

I'll definitely get a networked HDD for regular backups now.