My burner stopped recognizing blank DVD's suddenly today. It's a dual format double layer burner about 3 months old. I took my cpu into Best Buy and they said it could be because of some adware cookies. They wanted $70 to look at it and $150 to clean up these files. Is this something that a good spyware software could detect and delete or is there another issue? Has anyone else ran into this situation?
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Bad advice there Karanislove! The first thing you should look at is: Did you change any software or hardware configurations? Does the drive recognise non-blank discs? Did you upgrade the firmware? Is the media you are using officially supported by the drive? Don't just re-install Windows cause it doesn't read blanks. Troubleshoot first!
Cheers pelvis you rock, but look at the question properly. He is talking about spywares and adwares. Is'nt it?
[google]SpyBot[/google] is a pretty good adware/spyware detection and removal tool. See what that does for ya.
It's very unlikely that spyware would cause a DVD-ROM to cease functioning. At worst, spyware will steal your bank details! But it won't cause any problems with your hardware. Answer Pelvis_3's questions before we can troubleshoot further Oh, and as Karanislove suggested, have a read of my security guide
