Hi, I hope someone can help me with this problem. My Sony DVD RW (DRU-510A) will now only read DVD movies, Program disks or any bought disks. It will no longer read any disks that have been burnt- cdr's or cdrw's.. It used to work fine..... I also have a HP Mitsumi cr-48x5te , which is a CD RW drive...It too will no longer read any disks that have been burnt- cdr's or cdrw's.. It used to work fine... The reason I mentioned virus in the subject heading is that just before all this trouble I was infected with; W32.welchia.b.worm and W3 Blaster.worm plus a few others... After having my DVD Burner replaced under warranty twice (as I thought it was the problem) I am now having my doubts.. and this is why; I installed my DVD Burner into my friends computer to see if it was in fact the burner that was stuffed and guess what? It wouldn't work on his system either,,, guess what else?? His own DVD/CD Rom doesn't work now either....it shows exactly the same faults as both my drives. Please help me?? We both run Windows XP pro.
Oh, NO!! You "may" have been infected with a "HARDWARE VIRUS" Have a look at these links: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/7156/hwvirus.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17604.html http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/22/hardvirus.idg/ The first link is to a guy that had a "similar" problem as you, his CD-Drives stopped working. The other links are to News-stories about "Hardware Viruses" It also sounds like you have "infected" your "Friends" machine as well (he is NOT going to be happy about THAT!!). You may be lucky, and it is "only" the DVD drives that are "infected", but in the worst case the whole computer may be "infected" (soundcard, motherboard, CPU, memory, graphics card, hard drive, power supply and even THE CASE!!) If the whole computer is "infected", the only thing you can do is buy a new computer. Good Luck...
Are you posting to this forum using the "infected" computer? If you are, you should be REALLY CAREFUL to avoid "infecting" other machines (not everyone online is properly protected). In fact, it is a good idea to wash your hands after using the computer, otherwise the "infection" could spread to other equipment (TV, Stereo etc...) Prevention is better than cure. Good Luck...
