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JayRock · 09-28-2005, 04:59 PM

Last night my idiot friend sent me a link via AIM and I clicked on it. It however installed some bullshit spyware program on my computer and it started acting really funny. Eventually I got the computer to calm down enough for me to get on the internet and figure out what happened. Apparently I installed this 180 Search Assistant thing along with a bunch of other crap and a program tilted pokapoka70. After hours of searching downloading and fixing I got rid of all the problems...atleast I thought so. I turned my computer back on today and everything seems to be in working order, however whenever I try to access my second hdd i get a windows error reading "Drive F:\ Incorrect Paramters" and it fails to access the drive. However windows recongnizes it. I tried to access the drive thru command prompt and I was successful, but a dir command revealed nothing, no files no nothing, it just went down to the next command line. I typed in chkdsk and that did nothing as well.

Anyone have any clue as to what I did? or what this virus/spyware/malware/whateveryoucallit is? or how I can fix it? the info on the drive really isnt that important but regardless I would like to have it. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Specs:
XP Pro SP2
P4 2.5ghz
512MB
HDD1: Western Digital 60gb (correct label in device manger)
HDD2: Maxtor 160gb (drive in question: Funky device name in device manger, not normal)

09-28-2005, 04:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
JayRock Upright Location: Turn left down that street then right and im on the left	Incorrect parameter when trying to access hdd Last night my idiot friend sent me a link via AIM and I clicked on it. It however installed some bullshit spyware program on my computer and it started acting really funny. Eventually I got the computer to calm down enough for me to get on the internet and figure out what happened. Apparently I installed this 180 Search Assistant thing along with a bunch of other crap and a program tilted pokapoka70. After hours of searching downloading and fixing I got rid of all the problems...atleast I thought so. I turned my computer back on today and everything seems to be in working order, however whenever I try to access my second hdd i get a windows error reading "Drive F:\ Incorrect Paramters" and it fails to access the drive. However windows recongnizes it. I tried to access the drive thru command prompt and I was successful, but a dir command revealed nothing, no files no nothing, it just went down to the next command line. I typed in chkdsk and that did nothing as well. Anyone have any clue as to what I did? or what this virus/spyware/malware/whateveryoucallit is? or how I can fix it? the info on the drive really isnt that important but regardless I would like to have it. Thanks for any help anyone can give me. Specs: XP Pro SP2 P4 2.5ghz 512MB HDD1: Western Digital 60gb (correct label in device manger) HDD2: Maxtor 160gb (drive in question: Funky device name in device manger, not normal)