leapingfrog0
Senior member
Hello,
I got called by someone today in town to fix their computer, and found that they had the win95.mtx virus and ran the Symanctec *.exe to remove the virus, and it kept running through, checking the files over and over. It'd had gone through the whole hard drive twice, and I closed it to restart the computer (since it needed to restart to repair some of the files).
Well, it got halfway through booting and it suddenly crashed without warning. So, I tried going into safe-mode and had no luck, so then I did "step-by-step confirmation" and found out that the system crashes when it loads WIN (win.com).
So, I booted into DOS and tried to load win.com, when I do it says something like this:
"C:/
C:/WINDOWS/WININIT.EXE
[weird chars]
Press any key to continue..."
*press key*
*system crashes*
Any ideas on how to fix this? Should I just replace the win.com? What do I replace it with? Does Windows have a current backup of it somewhere?
Thanks for any help.
Andrew
I got called by someone today in town to fix their computer, and found that they had the win95.mtx virus and ran the Symanctec *.exe to remove the virus, and it kept running through, checking the files over and over. It'd had gone through the whole hard drive twice, and I closed it to restart the computer (since it needed to restart to repair some of the files).
Well, it got halfway through booting and it suddenly crashed without warning. So, I tried going into safe-mode and had no luck, so then I did "step-by-step confirmation" and found out that the system crashes when it loads WIN (win.com).
So, I booted into DOS and tried to load win.com, when I do it says something like this:
"C:/
C:/WINDOWS/WININIT.EXE
[weird chars]
Press any key to continue..."
*press key*
*system crashes*
Any ideas on how to fix this? Should I just replace the win.com? What do I replace it with? Does Windows have a current backup of it somewhere?
Thanks for any help.
Andrew
