The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Clevo W150HRM infected with rootkit, please help

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by mmodem, Apr 7, 2015.

  1. mmodem

    mmodem Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I own a Clevo W150HRM and in the last 2 years i have been living a hell, i cant do almost anything, i even dont have anymore a hard drive in the machine because i always endeed with mbr infected, i always ended lossing admin rights despite being logged in as admin, i have so man virus rom´s that i cant now even boot a linux distro, and when i can i ende being easily shutdown due to some retarded dudes that pass teir void life tracking and following me eveyone, seams they have no lives and simply live through me.

    So i please ask if i can do anything to restore the clevo w150hrm image factory and regain the control of my machine.

    TIA
     
    mmodem, Apr 7, 2015
    #1
  2. ayylmao

    ayylmao Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    174
    Likes Received:
    28
    Trophy Points:
    41
    You can try flashing the BIOS. That might erase it all.
     
    ayylmao, Apr 7, 2015
    #2
  3. Ashen-Shugar

    Ashen-Shugar Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    90
    Messages:
    337
    Likes Received:
    70
    Trophy Points:
    41
    A bios virus is extremely extremely rare.

    They can happen, but it most likely is a HD MBR virus of some type.

    When you boot your laptop, select your bios option and specify 'boot from cd'.

    Get a CD based cleaning tool or knoppix, and then go to town on your harddrive.

    Sadly, I don't think you'll be able to recover your drive. You're going to have to completely wipe it, format the HD off your CD. Including the hidden partition (if you have one), like the reimage partitions.

    Then do a fresh install of Windows 7 (also off CD).

    Once you have that, immediately grab malware bytes, spybot search & destroy, and an antivirus like AVG free, avast! or similar.

    When you browse, get firefox, install 'ad-block' and 'noscript' modules to it. Use Firefox over any other browser.

    If you do have a bios virus, where it's trying to forcefully boot off the harddrive, physically remove your harddrive and then put in your CD-rom and it will then boot off the CD, put your bios flashing image on the CD and reflash your bios with that CD.

    Once you have your bios flashed, change the boot order to boot off CD first, power down the laptop. Re-insert the harddrive, boot off CD, wipe your harddrive completely, all partitions, total format. Then re-install windows 7 like mentioned above.

    Also assume that any USB stick, CD's your burned, or other while your laptop was infected have infected those systems. If you need to burn a CD, use another laptop/desktop/other or get a friend to do it for you.

    Good luck.
     
    Ashen-Shugar, Apr 12, 2015
    #3