Event Viewer Issues

[Trav]

Greetings!

Piriform Speccy - System Analysis

System Information

Operating System

MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T5800 @ 2.00GHz 53

[noknojon]

Hi Trav -

Please try running a FULL disk check on the drive and see if that helps.

This is for Vista but the same method is valid for Windows 7

How to Run Check Disk at Startup in Vista <===

Basically you need to start an Administrative/Elevated DOS prompt and the run

CHKDSK C: /R

Tell it yes to run it on reboot and then reboot and let it check the drive.

Thank You -

[Haider]

Hello Trav:

If this is the same system for which you sought help in HJT (http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?s...=56830&st=0) being helped by elise025 that was closed because of your no response

If this is true, I am afraid none of us would be able to help except for Administrators, Moderators, Experts, and/or Trusted Advisors

[Trav]

This is the same system, but I ended up overwriting all data on the drive and reinstalling my operating system over any malicious data that might have existed. Unless there is malware that can survive a complete OS reinstallation that problem has been resolved.

I ran diskchk on my machine in read-only mode to see if it detected any issues and recieved the following response:

[noknojon]

Now check M/soft for All updates , including Vista SP2 -

This may take a while to complete but it must be done to get all updates - Set M/soft updates to Automatic and load everything they give you -

Thanks -

[Trav]

I did a complete update of the system just two days ago, but now a more severe issue has manifest. Tonight my computer began spewing smoke out of its insides without warning. I have no intentions of booting up that machine until I have it looked at in a hardware shop, I'm using a computer lab machine to make this post.

I'm really just blown out of the water, see this coming I did not.