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I spent the best part of the weekend trying to fix my PC after Internet
Explorer was hijacked whilst I tried to download some DVD ripping
software - be careful guys. Having tried loads of antivirus / spyware
removal software to no avail, and having noticed that this evil virus
had badly messed with the registry of my PC, I decided that the only
thing to do was to reformat the hard drive.
First I found that the instructions for reformatting my XP hard drive
would not work. I think the virus was preventing me from formatting it!
I got down to the "Press Y to format" bit, pressed Y and got a circular
prompt.
I eventually found a way to do it, having tweeked BIOS and booting XP
from CD instrad of hard drive. I managed to fully reformat the hard
drive - all files gone. The first thing I installed was my internet
connection. I had been connected for about five seconds before a pop-up
appeared, telling me that my computer was infected. I had not even
opened Internet Explorer yet.
Has anyone ever seen this before? A virus surviving a hard drive
formatting?? Has this thing messed with the magnetic polarity of the
particles of my physical hard drive??! Is there any way I will ever be
able to shift this? It is pure evil....any ideas would be much
appreciated. Thanks in avcance.
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CassiusPosted from http://www.pcreview.co.uk/ newsgroup access
I spent the best part of the weekend trying to fix my PC after Internet
Explorer was hijacked whilst I tried to download some DVD ripping
software - be careful guys. Having tried loads of antivirus / spyware
removal software to no avail, and having noticed that this evil virus
had badly messed with the registry of my PC, I decided that the only
thing to do was to reformat the hard drive.
First I found that the instructions for reformatting my XP hard drive
would not work. I think the virus was preventing me from formatting it!
I got down to the "Press Y to format" bit, pressed Y and got a circular
prompt.
I eventually found a way to do it, having tweeked BIOS and booting XP
from CD instrad of hard drive. I managed to fully reformat the hard
drive - all files gone. The first thing I installed was my internet
connection. I had been connected for about five seconds before a pop-up
appeared, telling me that my computer was infected. I had not even
opened Internet Explorer yet.
Has anyone ever seen this before? A virus surviving a hard drive
formatting?? Has this thing messed with the magnetic polarity of the
particles of my physical hard drive??! Is there any way I will ever be
able to shift this? It is pure evil....any ideas would be much
appreciated. Thanks in avcance.
--
CassiusPosted from http://www.pcreview.co.uk/ newsgroup access