Question OCZ Vertex 2 dies?

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Have you ever had an SSD drive die on you? If so how long did it last, and how did you diagnose/confirm it died?


I have a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter for my SSD drive. I pulled the SSD drive out of the device, via the USB connector, while the device was turned on and AFAIK it killed the SSD drive. I've tried directly connecting the SSD to the power connector from the PSU while plugging a SATA cable into my SATA PCI adapter card and it doesn't get recognized and it actually crashes my PC. I've cross checked the same SATA cable to the SATA adapter card, and power connector from the PSU, with the HDD drive that is usually connected to the SATA cable and power cord and when the HDD drive boots up it's recognized and runs like normal. I haven't cross checked the USB 3.0 to SATA adapter currently but it seems the SSD drive is having issues. If it crashes my PC just from plugging it in, what does that even mean?

 

[igor_kavinski]

The machine using NV and the NV App was found to have it, and oddly Windows Security (formerly Windows Defender) asked permission from me like a week later to send something back to Windows from the NV App or driver.. not sure which.

My suspicion would be on the NV App but it could be a false positive too. Maybe the NV App is using compressed RAR files to unpack needed files but then appearing in the Recycle Bin is suspicious. If you can get the rar file somehow, maybe upload that to VirusTotal and see how many other AVs detect it.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

My suspicion would be on the NV App but it could be a false positive too. Maybe the NV App is using compressed RAR files to unpack needed files but then appearing in the Recycle Bin is suspicious. If you can get the rar file somehow, maybe upload that to VirusTotal and see how many other AVs detect it.

I kinda was in panic mode and had it removed but I did take a screen shot,

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I did a search and others found it to be a nasty Trojan. Credential stealer iirc

 

[igor_kavinski]

Better change passwords of any websites you logged into on that PC.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Better change passwords of any websites you logged into on that PC.

It was on a gaming PC only. And I did change my Steam password

Still a little worried about it, tbh