nny Posted June 29, 2016 ID:1048367 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Just thought I'd let you know, anti-ransomware detected svchost.exe and quarantined it. Foolishly I allowed it to reboot as requested and was left with an unbootable machine, the only solution being to reinstall the OS. I spoke to my friend to get a boot disk and he reported that it had done the same to hom a few weeks ago (just with diffrent parts of sys32) - obvs no logs as system unbootable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1PW Posted June 30, 2016 ID:1048401 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Hello nny and Do you have any full system backups, images or any emergency restore capability on external media? Have you tried a boot-up in Safe Mode? Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nny Posted June 30, 2016 Author ID:1048453 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Stupidly I hadn't checked the integrity of the system image i'd taken (won't make that mistake again). Booting in safe mode was exactly the same, black screen with cursor, couldn't run sfc /scannow and dism.exe failed to start. Even tried to restore svchost.exe from another machine but that copied but didn't help. All in all - build is toast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1PW Posted July 1, 2016 ID:1048627 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Hello nny: Unfortunately, detailed restore actions of this nature are not permitted in this sub-forum. Do not let the name of the following sub-forum lead you to believe that malware is involved. It is simply a protected area where this type of work takes place. I recommend following the advice from the topic: Available Assistance for Possibly Infected Computers and have one of the Malware Removal Experts assist you with your issue. If, as recommended, you do open a topic in Malware Removal Help, please make reference to this thread. Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1PW Posted July 1, 2016 ID:1048628 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Hello nny: Unfortunately, detailed restore actions of this nature are not permitted in this sub-forum. Do not let the name of the following sub-forum lead you to believe that malware is involved. It is simply a protected area where this type of work takes place. I recommend following the advice from the topic: Available Assistance for Possibly Infected Computers and have one of the Malware Removal Experts assist you with your issue. If, as recommended, you do open a topic in Malware Removal Help, please make reference to this thread. Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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