Cleaning Packard Bell Hera GL laptop running
Windows XP from Viruses and Spyware (Viruses / Spyware which can
make CD drive and Wireless seem unworking)
Yesterday, one (girl)friend of mine brought me one
Packard
Bell notebook, which had a 2 years old Windows installed on
it.
As one can imagine Windows XP on it is full of
Spyware and
Viruses. Besides the software problems the notebook had some
hardware problems with the CD / DVD which is not reading CD / DVDs
at all.
Initially I thought, the CD unable to read problems are caused by
the infected Windows, however even restarting the PC with a
bootable
Hirens BootCD and a
Whoppix liveCD and
trying to boot from it failed this convinced me its a CD / DVD
combo drive hardware failure.
By the way, I've just recently found out about
Nixory - Is a
nice Free Software Open Source AntiSpyware tool for Firefox, IE
and Chrome.
I hope it will get a sharp development and soon, when some friend
asks me to fix his stupid non free-Windows PC, I would not have to
use a trial version of Malware Bytes but directly use only
Nixory
Anyways after using
Nixory,
MalwareBytes and
Avira and thoroughfully scanned the system in Safe Mode and
found and deleted some 15 Spyware / Viruses and tampered a bit with
the Wireless Driver settings all the notebook devices started
working fine again.
The wireless had also one really odd problem on this
Packard
Bell -
Hera GL, even though the notebook wireless
antenna was capable of detecting all the wireless networks it
couldn't properly connect to any of it but failed to get proper IP
addresses.
Partially the unable to grab an IP via wireless router dhcp server
got fixed by using the Wireless restart Button (located on the
Notebook corpus).
However even after cleaning up the Virus and Spyware the Wireless
Networks connectivity problems on this Packard Bell continued,
until I changed also few settings in the Control Panel I never
thought Viruses / Spyware infected can have some bad impact on
Wireless Card and CD drive make them unsusable though they showed
like working correctly in Windows
Control Panel -> System
??
In the meantime I reinstalled the Wireless Driver for the notebook,
the Wireless card on the notebook was showing up itself under the
name of
Ralink 802.11n Wireless Lan Card in Windows
Device Manager
After re-installing the wireless driver I had to also change few
settings for the
Wireless Network Connection using the menus
Properties -> Configure -> Extended; therein
everywhere for each Value I make it be
Enable and for
Power Saving Mode , I've choose the Value option of
CAM
After a system reboot, everything started working finally fine. One
last thing to add is that before I fixed the Ralink wireless to
work under Windows, I tried to use a Bootable Linux LiveCD but even
there the wireless was failing to connect to the wireless networks
(maybe this shit wireless device has some issues with its Linux
drivers).