GhostGT
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Hey all,
Gonna make this short n sweet since I've got a midterm in a few hours and I gotta get some sleep.
A few weeks ago, my computer's main hard drive (150gb raptor) began to sound a little louder than usual and was performing EXTREMELY slow. Startup would take me 20 minutes, clicking on a folder took 45 seconds to open up, etc. I thought the hard drive was toast.
After 2-3 days of restarting the computer, trying different restores, etc, Symantec somehow did an autoscan and found a Trojan in my system. The file was quarantined then deleted, and the computer has been fine ever since.
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Fast forward to this morning. I decided to schedule a disk check (scandisk for Vista) and restarted the computer in order to initialize the scan.
The computer reached ~14% of one of the steps, when I realized that the hard drive was AGAIN a little louder. I also realized that there was a constant, loud ticking noise coming from the Raptor. I shined a flashlight into my case and saw the needle constantly "ticking" back and forth every .5 seconds or so.
Anyway, I left for school and came back to find my computer idle at desktop. I had forgotten about the disk check incident until I realized that my computer was acting slow again (although not as slow as before, but still very slow).
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I'm at a loss. The LED on my case is always on (just like it was before with the trojan) so I'm guessing something is being used 100% here. I'm running a full scan as we speak, but the scan has been stuck on a file for over an hour now. I'll leave it like this while I sleep and wake up in a few hours, and I'll drop another update.
Until then, what do you guys think is my problem? My first thought at the sign of the problem was the HD going bad, but the trojan seemed to be the issue there. Is it possible that the virus is back?
Thanks for reading,
Chris
Gonna make this short n sweet since I've got a midterm in a few hours and I gotta get some sleep.
A few weeks ago, my computer's main hard drive (150gb raptor) began to sound a little louder than usual and was performing EXTREMELY slow. Startup would take me 20 minutes, clicking on a folder took 45 seconds to open up, etc. I thought the hard drive was toast.
After 2-3 days of restarting the computer, trying different restores, etc, Symantec somehow did an autoscan and found a Trojan in my system. The file was quarantined then deleted, and the computer has been fine ever since.
______
Fast forward to this morning. I decided to schedule a disk check (scandisk for Vista) and restarted the computer in order to initialize the scan.
The computer reached ~14% of one of the steps, when I realized that the hard drive was AGAIN a little louder. I also realized that there was a constant, loud ticking noise coming from the Raptor. I shined a flashlight into my case and saw the needle constantly "ticking" back and forth every .5 seconds or so.
Anyway, I left for school and came back to find my computer idle at desktop. I had forgotten about the disk check incident until I realized that my computer was acting slow again (although not as slow as before, but still very slow).
_________________
I'm at a loss. The LED on my case is always on (just like it was before with the trojan) so I'm guessing something is being used 100% here. I'm running a full scan as we speak, but the scan has been stuck on a file for over an hour now. I'll leave it like this while I sleep and wake up in a few hours, and I'll drop another update.
Until then, what do you guys think is my problem? My first thought at the sign of the problem was the HD going bad, but the trojan seemed to be the issue there. Is it possible that the virus is back?
Thanks for reading,
Chris