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Can anyone think of a reason that the registry would be altered to make it so that certain services (including the ability to network) lose their permissions and so are unable to run? I don't have a virus/spyware/etc that 3 different checkers can find, and I didn't play with the registry in the past few days. I've got it all fixed now, but I wanna head off a repeat if I can.
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I can't think of any..... might have been a fluke.
The only reason would be removing permissions and "hope" that it restores to a lower permission so a virus could do more damage... But if it can delete it, it can set it to whatever permission it wants.I've lost my mind ages ago. If you find it, please hide it. -
No useful suggestions right now.
Tell me what you fixed, and how you fixed it, and maybe, though.Comment
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I gave permissions back to something in CurrentControlSet (tapisrv, I think), and my network just sprang back up.Comment
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tapisrv is part of the communication layer. So yeah it makes sense that it needs to be able to run.
The t part usually stands for telephony. Which used to regard just modems. But it includes network cards nowdays.I've lost my mind ages ago. If you find it, please hide it.Comment
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Yeah, but it's the fact that it randomly lost the permissions overnight that's got me weirded out. *shrug*Comment
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And I figured I should pipe in to add that I've not heard of anything that would wipe it out. Nor does a quick google search show anything.
I wish I had an answer for you on it.Comment
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*sigh*...
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I dunno what caused it, but it was a symptom of something larger.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm now downloading a copy of Ubuntu so I can actually save the data I've got on the HDD, since it won't boot up and gives me a "paging error in a non-page section" or something to that effect.Comment
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oh crap... that's usually a sign of the HD starting to fail. If it's a smart hd, download the WD diagnostic (will work even if it's not a WD hard drive). I had something like that happening to me, it was a serious failing of the smart system of the HD.
*edit* adding a link to WD tools http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...&sid=3&lang=enLast edited by LostMyMind; 09-04-2008, 06:05 PM.I've lost my mind ages ago. If you find it, please hide it.Comment
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Ouch. That sucks Broom. Do you at least have a USB drive you could save it to?Comment
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Actually, I've got an NAS, a laptop, a 4GB, and an 8GB USB drive I can save to. I'm lucky, since most of what I need to save is just saved game files and some obscure patches for games. I'm now glad I got the NAS earlier this summer. Saved pretty much everything to that. And thanks LMM, I'll try running that when I get the LiveCD running (I'm waiting for a linux-geek friend to come over after he's done work today to give me a hand getting started). I guess worst-case is I'm looking at a new HDD.
If it comes to that, I'm going to be slightly annoyed though, it's only about a year old.Comment
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well, if it a WD it'll be under warranty and they'll replace it free of charge. Mine was 3 years old and it got replace free and quick.I've lost my mind ages ago. If you find it, please hide it.Comment
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No, it's a Seagate. Also, I don't know where I put the receipt. I'm fairly certain I have it, just I've moved rooms twice since I got it.Comment
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Good news Broomjockey: You're not likely to need the receipt. Seagate went to 5 year warranties on all their drives a couple years back. Your drive will show a manufacturing date on it less than 5 years old, so you won't have to worry about it. They'll just do an RMA for you.Comment
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If it's a Seagate, it should be under warranty. You don't need the receipt, just the serial number printed on the drive. Download and use Seagate's own tools, since that's a required part of the RMA process (IIRC), and that'll also report the model and serial numbers for you, if the drive still functions at all.
The good thing about Seagates is that if they fail, they do so relatively gracefully, allowing you to get (very nearly) all your data off them.Comment
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