Advice needed on BSOD Scam!
Suddenly on our other computer there was a bright blue screen accompanied by a loud beeping that sounded like a timer. A message said "BSOD: Register Server Failed with an error code....." and also s...
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austinjenna wrote:
Boot it into safe mode,download malwarebytes from your other computer and put it on a usb drive, then plug that into the infected computer and run it. It should find the virus.
For Pete's sake.. The OP has ALREADY SAID it blue screens when booting the OS..
Malware and Virus writers ARE a lot smarter than you think, they can easily disable Safe mode..
OP will NEED to use a WINDOWS RECOVERY BOOT DVD and even then may not be successful depending on the damage the Malware has done.
Alternate to the WINDOWS RECOVERY BOOT DVD would be to boot the PC to a "PE" (Pre Boot) OS environment (Bart's PE or even Linux) then run anti malware/antivirus software.
Second alternate (this one could be risky and could spread the malware to your good PC) is to remove the HD from the PC, use a external USB to HD adapter to plug into a good PC. You would boot the good PC to the desktop then plug the offending HD into to PC using the external USB to HD adapter. Then run the anti malware and anti virus software to clean up the drive.
If nothing else works, nuke the drive and reinstall the OS from scratch..
Once you get it fixed, consider getting some imaging software and an external HD and make backup images of your PC.. Go through this one time and you WILL appreciate having your PC OS backed up in the future..
