OK! this is weird. Crashing

[brian]

I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i started
suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or
watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan
and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
(samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why
my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i
used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did
was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i
renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc
was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in
the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I
removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped freezing
when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately,
and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram
stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more
now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it looks
like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns
back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time with
the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the
last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE
HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have
xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is
windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get
infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without
reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each time
i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get
infected a lot but still work before i used the virus
scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove this
worm? these tutorials on the net suck.

 

[Cerridwen]

I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i started
suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or
watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan
and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
(samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why
my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i
used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did
was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i
renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc
was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in
the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I
removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped freezing
when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately,
and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram
stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more
now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it looks
like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns
back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time with
the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the
last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE
HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have
xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is
windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get
infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without
reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each time
i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get
infected a lot but still work before i used the virus
scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove this
worm? these tutorials on the net suck.

You've been answered in general, newusers, helpandsupport and basics. Please
do *NOT* multipost. If you must, /crosspost/ to two or three (no more)
*pertinent* groups. Oh, and you might like to learn what a 'paragraph' is -
huge blocks of text are almost impossible to read.

Your current problems have nothing whatsoever to do with a virus. There is
no virus (that I am aware of) that will cause a system to refuse to boot.
Even a BSV will allow the system to boot to a certain point.

If by "Windows Restore" you mean system restore - it's not going help you
fix a hardware problem.

Mind you, anyone who becomes infected and doesn't install a decent AVP after
that, or relies on an online scanner, deserves everything they get.

If you /still/ think you have a virus (but many of your issues sound like
hardware to me) then your only options are to either format and restore to
factory settings or have HP check your system out (MS does not, will not
and, indeed, cannot assist with OEM supplied applications or operating
systems).