Fuzzypig Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 A friend of mine recently became engaged in a hacker war, by means unknown. He got an email from his opponent, but foolishly forgot to check for viruses. His computer was messed up. badly. When he tries to run ANY program in windows, he just gets the message "this computer has been temporarily suspended". He can't run any programs, so his computer is basically useless. Does anyone know what could have happened to his OS, and how to fix it?I think he's running windows xp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 Try avast! virus cleaner and read the "Solving other problems" paragraph thoroughly as it sounds as if his file extensions are shot. Without knowing what's been done it's a long shot, but worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel=UK= Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 i cant believe people still open unknown email attachements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 I can't believe that people don't have backups of their system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 I don't understand what the hell a Hacker War is, and how anyone gets involved willingly. I also agree about Anti virus and Anti malware programs. It sounds as though he got exactly what he was asking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 Yep...leave all this hacking to the golf course! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 I can believe people:- Use the internet without suitable updated AV. Open unexpected e-mail attachments. Send their details to that nice man from Nigeria who wants to give them loadsa money and fill their account details in the forms when a bank they don't have an account with has a sudden catastrophic system crash. But then again I'm a cynical old git and I've been around long enough that very little people do surprises me. So I just remember the balls ups I made as a newbie, try to point them in the right direction and hope they recover from this latest slip off the learning curve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 As none of us has actually offered any advice other than not to get involved in such nonsense in the first place, here goes. DO A COMPLETE FORMAT AND REINSTALL WINDOWS, then have more sense in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 Yep...leave all this hacking to the golf course! :lol:@gordy :lol: :lol: :lol:AVG Free Edition has a free e-mail scanner.@Rebel - You'd be suprised... the numbers are staggering.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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