Re: AVI's Have Mysteriously Been Stricken Unplayable/Unreadable? (Worm/Virus)
From: com crumb (lungnut2002_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/09/04
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Date: 8 Jan 2004 20:12:02 -0800
"Bill Sanderson" <Bill_Sanderson@msn.com.plugh.org> wrote in message news:<eWgE2fg1DHA.1704@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> May I be the optimist in this group?
>
> Rather than a virus, I wonder whether you are simply missing a codec or some
> other bit of deciphering/unencrypting/decompressing code which is needed to
> properly play/display/listen to the affected bits.
You were close, Bill.
The real problem was an outdated driver for my PCI IDE Controller.
It's strange to me that the driver would cause this sort of problem--a
file that is on the hard drive appears in explorer yet seems
corrupted. Anyway, installing the updated Promise driver fixed my
problem.
The virus (ms blaster, I believe), was real enough. But unfortunately
the biggest hassle it caused for me was throwing up a red herring in
my search for a solution to the problem at hand.
At least I've learned my lesson about worms and viruses. I thought
somehow I was immune because I had never gotten hold of one before.
Thanks to all!
> In addition to putting up the firewall, have you installed all critical
> updates, including updates (which may not be in the critical category) to
> Media Player?
>
> I don't know what to say about the drive problem--it sounds as though NTFS
> fixed that on its own, but whether anything was lost of importance in those
> "orphaned files" I don't know. You might look at the System Event
> log--there should be an event containing the text displayed at the end of
> the chkdsk. (right-click My computer, choose manage, expand event viewer,
> click on System. Scroll down to the boot time associated with the chkdsk
> run.
>
> I'd strongly recommend discussing this in a Media-player related forum. You
> might even catch ZachD (?)'s attention--give some complete details about a
> particular file that gives a problem.
>
> Another thought is to do an SFC /scannow (start, run, SFC /scannow <enter>)
> just to see if that process will identify something which is missing or
> corrupted. Have your XP CD available.
>
>
> "com crumb" <lungnut2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3b82575e.0401072253.7164e1e9@posting.google.com...
> > AVI's Have Mysteriously Been Stricken Unplayable/Unreadable?
> > (Worm/Virus)
> >
> > I just did a clean install of windows last night and was amazed to
> > find myself in the midst of a virus attack as I logged online to grab
> > my windows updates. I've never had anything like this happen so it was
> > a big shock.
> >
> > Anyway, after three fdisks and three clean installs (and finally
> > enabling a firewall--stupid me), I am virus free.
> >
> > But that doesn't mean that I'm not suffering from the attack:
> >
> > Since last night's attack about a quarter of my 320 GB of raw footage
> > (yeah, 320 GB) is now unreadable. This footage resides on two separate
> > hard drives, and the affected files reside on only one of the hard
> > drives.
> >
> > Premiere's message: "Unable to open that file. File is either damaged,
> > an unsupported type, locked or in use by another application."
> >
> > Media Player 9 opens the file but the audio is a digital train wreck
> > of squeals and squeaks and the video doesn't display at all. Also, the
> > duration of the clip (minutes/seconds) shows that the file is roughly
> > 3 times as long as it should be. The file size I don't believe has
> > been changed, though.
> >
> > Quicktime refuses to open these files because it says that "it isn't a
> > file that Quicktime understands."
> >
> > The files' "DATE MODIFIED" doesn't reflect any changes in the past
> > day. They all reflect the last time I trimmed the files--late last
> > month. They all played fine before this attack.
> >
> > Also, if I right click the files to get their properties, it lists the
> > file as a "Video File" (and the extention, *.avi has stayed the same).
> > But, curiously, if I click on the tab "SUMMARY" where information
> > usually could be found about the clip, now only this is shown:
> > "Summary properties are unavailable for the selected source(s)."
> >
> > And, finally, to add to the mystery: The worm/virus also infected my
> > "Music/MP3" hard drive (200+ GB of files). Initially, the hard drives
> > contents "disappeared". But Windows XP (on its own--without my
> > request), ran a check on the hard drive during a bootup and in a
> > process that took half an hour, recovered what it called "orphan
> > files". Now the hard drive is up and healthy and all the files seem to
> > play fine.
> >
> > However, I have a large collection of pictures/jpgs and tens of
> > thousands of those have been rendered "unreadable."
> >
> > While that stresses me out somewhat, what really matters right now is
> > this raw footage. Is it recoverable? Can you at least help me
> > understand what transpired?
> >
> > Thanks.
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