Computer Went Crazy -- Scared Me Half To Death (screens, crash, sounds)
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PC went nuts yesterday. Black screens, white screens, one message said that my OS was not genuine.
Nothing worked, not only IE but also the internal stuff. Couldn't even shut down. Had to pull the plug. Just what I need on a weekend with no techs in the area working.
Couldn't sleep. So I got up at 3am and saw that Malwarebytes was disabled. Did even Malwarebytes succumb to something nasty??? If so, there's no hope.
Maybe because internet traffic is low at that hour, I dunno, but I was able to get online albeit very s-l-o-w-l-y and type-in malwarebytes into the search engine.
Sounds like you have a virus. Turn off your router so you are not connected to the internet.
Boot in safe mode and run full scans using whatever software you have - malware bytes, Defender etc.
Look at you uninstall program and see if a new program that you do not recognize has just been downloaded. This could be the problem so uninstall.
Look in your browsers for add on programs and disable or delete those you do not know.
Run a program like CCleaner and run a defrag program.
The idea is to clean up you computer as much as possible.
Go back on line and update your virus programs and re run.
PC went nuts yesterday. Black screens, white screens, one message said that my OS was not genuine.
Nothing worked, not only IE but also the internal stuff. Couldn't even shut down. Had to pull the plug. Just what I need on a weekend with no techs in the area working.
Couldn't sleep. So I got up at 3am and saw that Malwarebytes was disabled. Did even Malwarebytes succumb to something nasty??? If so, there's no hope.
Maybe because internet traffic is low at that hour, I dunno, but I was able to get online albeit very s-l-o-w-l-y and type-in malwarebytes into the search engine.
As above, this is one of the key warning signs that you may have some type of virus or malware.
If a redownload of MWB won't identify and fix the problem you may need to ask for specialist to help out.
It's also important that you find some way to back up essential files to some type of external media, then have that examined at some point later as well to ensure that nothing nasty came along for the ride when you did the backup.
If you have Malawarebytes in your computer then the problem was caused by them, they admit they screwed up, see the below.
Quote:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new...amservice-exe/
First reported in the Malwarebytes forums, numerous people have been complaining today about mbamservice.exe consuming large amount of memory and spiking the CPU at over 90% usage. This has caused some computers to crash or become too unstable to use.
One of my friends computers is completely locked up according to him on the phone last night, he has a slow connection, so I told him to bring it to my condo this morning and hopefully my fast internet connection speed will help me work to get it running again.
If you have Malawarebytes in your computer then the problem was caused by them, they admit they screwed up, see the below.
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One of my friends computers is completely locked up according to him on the phone last night, he has a slow connection, so I told him to bring it to my condo this morning and hopefully my fast internet connection speed will help me work to get it running again.
The OP is already aware that it's a problem with the MWB update. Note the link in the first post.
If a redownload (a further update) doesn't correct the problem, then it's still recommended he do the things advised above.
All of this is most likely due to MWB itself, but I think it's best to be cautious in this case, given that bug reports mention high CPU and memory usage as the main problems with the update rather than one or two of the other glitches he describes.
Last edited by Hightower72; 01-29-2018 at 12:54 PM..
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