Virus Update Thanks Yall

Thanks to everyone above, I either had already or tried most all the excellent comments which I appreciated. I did get a boot disc from the site Clooney posted plus found some old ones around here, but that didnt fix it either. It would boot into Safe Mode, but some corrupted files (caused by the Virus) caused it to have a System Failure in which case it recycled itself. The Norton/Symantec (Rememebr, it was Norton 2005 which still let it in and couldnt cure it grrrrr rrr) and McAfee and even CA Associates (CA) eTrust nor Micro Trend nor the Microsoft Support Techs nor all the stuff posted could clean it nor let me delete or rename the infected files etc.

Finally, I did what C Peter mentioned as I wanted a new HD anyway. My main was a 80 gig and the backup (where I keep critical data backed up) only a 20. Therefore, I bought a new 80 (on sale for $50 at Office Depot),,,,, ,,,placed it in and removed the old infected HD,,,,, ,,,installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 with alllll ll latest updates,,,,, ,,,,, installed CA eTrust Anti Virus,,,,, ,,,installed CA eTrust Firewall,,,,, ,,,,,installed CA Pest Partrol (spyware tool),,,,, ,,,,,installed some other brands of Spyware Removal,,,,, ,,,,,SET THEM ALL TO AUTO DETECT AND REPAIR AND RUN FULL TIME,,,,, ,,,,installed the old HD as a slave and ran anti virus and spyware and deleted the infected files out the ying yang,,,,, ,,,, again searched n scanned any data I wanted to xfer to the new master HD,,,,, ,,,xferred the data I needed,,,,, ,,,,, ,FORMATTED N WIPED CLEAN THE OLD HD,,,,, ,,,,installed my programs to the new HD and got it all set up like I wanted (again with Anti Virus n Firewall n Spyware runnin n scannin out the ying yang),,,,, ,,,,, ,,,,, installed Norton Ghost like Clooney mentioned,,,,, ,,,,backed up my new HD to the just formatted n wiped clean slave,,,,, ,,,,,created some new emergency boot disks,,,,, ,,,,AND SHES RUNNIN LIKE A CHAMP. The CA eTrust Anti Virus and Firewalls run auto and constant and are reporting blocked intrusion attempts every so often Yayyyyy yyyyy yy

I guess the best Anti Virus and Firewalls and Spyware ALWAYS RUNNIN and having her backed up with Ghost and 2 Hard Drives is best I can do for now and I am gonna look into the Firefox Browser. One other thign I may consider is Drive Partition so if I ever have to wipe n reinstall my OS I dont have to wipe the entire HD, Norton Ghost dont do that but with it Im not even sure I need to worry about that all again????? The Partition Programs would allow me to just wipe n reinstall say the OS Partition on my HD without havign to wipe it all right??? Any you guys know or used it???

Thanks again n God Bless all for the time patience n help you provided

John T in Indiana an EE but not a Computer Geek Dweeb or Nerd, not enough of one anyway lol

It works great if installing a larger drive.. Just Ghost out all original partitions to a remote drive or C/D,,,, then install the larger drive & partition to your liking,,,,, then Ghost back in to the new drive.. As long as the partition space is larger, no problem.. Once re-Ghosted back in you can move the data to new or any different partitions created…

Another way--Lets say you have 4 meg of data spread across 3 partitions.. Just find a partition that will hold the 4 meg,, then place it (move it) all to one partition,, then Ghost it out to a remote location,, then re-partition your “removed from” drive to whatever you like as long as at least one partition is 4 meg or larger,, then Ghost back into that partition.. Once all back on that original drive move it around as needed to all the new partitions. Not as easy as “Partition Magic” but will work if needed.. & if something goes wrong you have back up copies in the Ghosted out folders.. I love that program..

Another way yet—is to move all stored data on your first drive to your second.. Then Ghost out the operating system & base C drive to the second drive,, then partition the first drive as needed,, then ghost the operating system & C drive back in to the 1st partition,, then move the stored data back as needed..

Clooney

Take care good Clooney

John T

Do you have Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and SpywareBlaster on ur computer?
If you want the URLs for them all, e-mail me. It is open. I'll give them to u and u can download off the web. All of them are free. Till then,

farmallman

Im pretty well covered for a while at least, Thanks n take care

John T

Depending on what you are doing with your computer, you may be able to switch to Linux instead of Windows and just avoid the whole virus/spyware mess. In my Architecture office we have reduced the use of windows to one machine that runs payroll. The machines don"t crash, they don"t get viruses, they don"t slow down, they just work.

Regards,

Kurt

Kris A NC

later

John T

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