this post is mainly for humor and a good laugh for all the advanced computer users out there but this was a traumatizing event for me. well this is how the story goes:
i am at my uncles house playing around on the computer so i try to put the famous sub7 server file on his computer. i was too scared to run it on his so i figured his was the perfect experiment computer. so i ran it and things went bad from there. i started getting fatal errors and the blue screen of death. so i closed the computer down. from then on, everytime i would start the computer i would get this message : "Windows is protected. Please Restart your computer" i would then press ctrl - alt -del and it would bring back a screen that says, safe mode failed to load please select another mode. and i would just press 1 for normal and the computer would load and it would execute the file i had set in the server file for subseven. so i thought hmm this will never do, the computer runs so slow now, so remembering some posts i had read on here, i went to www.moosoft.com and downloaded their cleaner for trojans.
I did the scan and it returned two trojans(BDE and SubSeven)...(BDE i later found out was used in Kazaa for something or other).. so i cleaned subseven from everything and restarted the computer. this time i started getting errors saying that the "C:WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTEM dir does not exist" that is the directory the subseven has setup in. along with several other error messages for the same type problem. well i went to the registry and deleted the key named SubSeven and anything else that had subseven on it.
the next step was changing the win.ini file back to where it should have been. (i was getting errors for it trying to access something that wasnt there) so i fixed that and things were good. i would not get any error messages on startup or anything like that.
BUT THE PROBLEM: the computer could not start 3 times in a row without getting the "windows is protected message"on the 4th try. does anyone know why this may be? please i am asking if anyone knows the answer.
...the end: i ended up having to reformat the entire computer but hey, its better now than it was before so who can complain??
