Scans.in » Caution http://scans.in Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:14:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Why do people get burned from CT scans.? http://scans.in/why-do-people-get-burned-from-ct-scans/ http://scans.in/why-do-people-get-burned-from-ct-scans/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:56:17 +0000 admin http://scans.in/why-do-people-get-burned-from-ct-scans/ I would like for any medical professionals to explain this to me. I answered two questions today from people who had been burned. I build powerful 3D x-ray machines that screen baggage and I understand the slice function. In my research I came across miaderm.com and they purport that they can treat radiation burns and prevent ct burns if applied beforehand. I also saw that oncologists use ct scans with caution. I think this is a good question, be careful with the answer.

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Recently (within the past 4 or so hours) my Toshiba laptop (Windows XP) has been completely freaking out. It has had several freezes, 4-5 crashes, strange application requests, and other suspicious behavior. At the time, I had Zone Alarm, AVG Free, and a form of McAfee installed on my computer.

Now, since its April 1st my first guess – Conficker. I used the worm info from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx

This morning everything was fine, and I didn’t match any of the symptoms. But suddenly, I was unable to go to Microsoft Update, or run the Malicious Software removal tool (links on the page) – Two indications that your computer was infected with conficker. I ran the Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner this morning with no results, but when I ran it again a few hours ago (when the suspicious behavior began) it would cause my computer to freeze up and force me to restart.

I then downloaded a few more programs (Silverlight, Windows Live OneCare Trial) but that just seemed to cause more crashes, and Zone Alarm was catching a lot of strange programs trying to run (a bunch I have never heard of or installed). I removed both programs since.

The weirdness continues – I was suddenly, without reason, able to access Microsoft Update and the Malicious Software removal tool. I ran both; The Update downloaded a few things, but the Microsoft Genuine Advantage installer crashed. The Mal. Software removal tool also crashed, forcing another reboot.

I then found this link: http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=conficker_worm&inid=us_ghp_link_conficker_worm

I downloaded the Conficker removal tool patch from the site (which is odd, since conficker disables downloaded patches like this), ran it, but the computer crashed again.

I then downloaded the 15day trial of Norton AntiVirus 2009, and initiated the scan; Its been scanning for a while now, still no infections have been caught.

So I’m at a total loss here; Before, my computer was totally freaking out, crashing every 10 minutes. Now it seems ok, but I want to be absolutely sure. Earlier I couldn’t access any anti-worm links, but now I can.

What is going on? Is it conficker? Is it just a common virus (which raises the question why AVG didn’t pick it up)? Or is it nothing? Please help!

I will edit this later with details after the norton scan has finished. Thanks for your help.
Ok, responses:

@James the Nerd: Its running no CPU =/
@hicollin: I’m trying to avoid formatting if possible…
@Joe k: Link is dead; Besides, I don’t trust mediafire downloads. Official sites only.
@Hottie: I tried that one, it found nothing this morning, and crashed it twice later =/
@Tommyc555: Thanks for being a douche.

UPDATE: My computer has been rather normal recently. Norton Antivirus scanned, and came up with nothing. I’m running the conficker patch again, and I will try the scanner Hottie linked one more time after that. The mystery just deepends; It seemed like virus/spyware, but Norton came up with nothing, and it hasn’t done anything weird since. Am I in the clear, or what? What should I do?

Thanks for all the responses (except Tommyc555’s) so far, I really appreciate it guys.

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