Something weird with RegMech...

Gig-O-Ram · December 20th, 2006

Last night, I clicked the desktop icon to one of my favorite utilities, Registry Mechanic 3.0, and I got this error message that said:

"Program has been damaged by bad sector or virus, please reinstall"

This upset me, because I use the program quite a bit. So I deleted the program from ADD/Delete Programs, and deleted all the file folders, except for the setup. The really weird thing is that when I reinstalled the program, I got the same error message. I did a reinstall from the original setup I still have, I did one from a backup of the setup I have on an external drive, and I even redid an extraction from the original .RAR file and tried it from that setup, and again got the same message.

So, today I just restored my whole system to about a week ago, and now I have the program back and it seems to work fine. Has anyone ever had something like this happen? And should I be worried about my HDD?

Panda Man · December 20th, 2006

If there is a problem with your disk, you would still get that error message, system restore or not. I'm about 99% it was malware, but just to be sure, do step 5 in my guide -

http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/f32/...our-comp-1727/

Too lazy to type it out.

December 20th, 2006	#1
Gig-O-Ram As stated in the avatar: Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Out here in the New Mexico desert. Posts: 814	Something weird with RegMech... Last night, I clicked the desktop icon to one of my favorite utilities, Registry Mechanic 3.0, and I got this error message that said: "Program has been damaged by bad sector or virus, please reinstall" This upset me, because I use the program quite a bit. So I deleted the program from ADD/Delete Programs, and deleted all the file folders, except for the setup. The really weird thing is that when I reinstalled the program, I got the same error message. I did a reinstall from the original setup I still have, I did one from a backup of the setup I have on an external drive, and I even redid an extraction from the original .RAR file and tried it from that setup, and again got the same message. So, today I just restored my whole system to about a week ago, and now I have the program back and it seems to work fine. Has anyone ever had something like this happen? And should I be worried about my HDD? If it's not fixed, then don't broke it!

December 20th, 2006	#2
Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,910	Re: Something weird with RegMech... If there is a problem with your disk, you would still get that error message, system restore or not. I'm about 99% it was malware, but just to be sure, do step 5 in my guide - http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/f32/...our-comp-1727/ Too lazy to type it out. Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD

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