Reboot when Recording Service starts

[JohnD]

Not really a question but more a warning. The computer on which I run GBPVR rcently became infected with a new variant of Trojan.DNS-changer. I noticed the infection since, when booting the computer, it would immediately reboot at the point when GB-PVR Recording Service started. I was only able to boot the computer by going into safe mode and disabling the Recording Service. This is a symptom of the virus which I have not seen reported elsewhere and is only of interest to those of us running GB-PVR. Thinking the problem was with corrupted GBPVR files I unnecessarily reinstalled GB-PVR although the program itself is in no way affected by the virus. (I expect sub will be able to explain why it causes the crash).
Other symptoms of the virus are inability to open MyComputer by double clicking (although you can Explore it by right clicking) and clicking on a link, after doing a Google search, will redirect you to different link.
The virus is transmitted by opening an infected networked drive, USB stick or USB drive or if you download dodgy video codecs.

[sub]

Sorry, I dont know. I'd reinstall Windows.

[JohnD]

Apologies Sub. I wasn't expecting a solution! The solution is to remove the virus which is relatively straight forward. Everthing wasalready back up and running perfectly now. It was just that it had this strange undocumented effect when you have GBPVR installed and I thought you may understand why. Possibly due to my MVP making a DHCP request which would be hijacked by the virus. I felt it worth documenting just in case anyone else picks it up.

[sub]

Possibly due to my MVP making a DHCP request which would be hijacked by the virus

Yes, its probably something like that. Something related to the networking services that are used.