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[stones 10+ year member]

I hadMcAfee for a while. Norton was the only one to pick up if a virus or hacker attempted to get into my computer. McAfee just sat there and didn't detect shit. I did the free scan from Norton and didnt' detect anything yet I KNOW the virus/worm is on my HD.
Oh btw..I did reformat. That's why I'm so pissed cuz I reformatted the HD and it's STILL on there.

Give up on Nortons, the only times my computer has ever been infected was with Nortons.

There is different degrees of reformatting, regular reformats don't actually wipe all the old info.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

yea. just reformat, and i will send you an app to recover what you want //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

My recovery system has two options a "Destructive" and a "save" type mode. I did destructive which wipes everything off my HD and reformats. The virus/worm is still onhere.

I have a Western Digital 80GB HD that is literally brand new. Used for twoish weeks in my old pc. It has Windows ME recovery on it. That's it. So my plan was to swap out my HD's and run this computer's recovery on the WD HD since its clean. Should I attempt it or no?

Oh btw...none of the links stones posted have detected any viruses/worms even though I KNOW the **** thing is on here.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

use the xp install disc. when you isntall do a full format, not quick

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

Problem..I dont have the XP Install Disc. It's just on the 5 recovery discs...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Ayrton 10+ year member]

use the xp install disc. when you isntall do a full format, not quick

Ditto...

Start fresh.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

Problem..I dont have the XP Install Disc. It's just on the 5 recovery discs...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

read again

The virus/worm is in my startup. It's under HKLM/ blah blah/Run

Well I went into Run and i can't find it. On msconfig there is a blank command and item but shows the HKLM/blah/Run

So is there a way I can find sometthing suspicious in my regedit that I can delete it? There was a OEMreset_switch

if you all wanna check ur registry and see if that ones in there or sometihng...cuz it restarts everytime windows loads..

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

Problem..I dont have the XP Install Disc. It's just on the 5 recovery discs...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

eeek. don't have a friend that you could borrow from or some other way to 'obtain' it?

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

F8 & do "Enable Boot Logging" & post the file.

Disconnect ALL devices(pci cards,drives,etc) except the hard drive with the OS on it. If you have more than one memory module, try each mutually exclusively.

Go into your BIOS & see what kind of video ([x]vga/agp) settings are there & post that. Disable onboard non-necessities like LAN, sound, USB, etc.

Does your BIOS beep differently after POST?

I think this is a hardware problem.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

well F8 doesn't work cuz my keyboard's driver was deleted when I reformated the HD lol...here I get a screen shot of my startup programs so you all can see what im talking about

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

There. That blank was NEVER there before Windows starting being ghey.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

You can't get into Safe Mode anymore? You got a USB keyboard? Use a normal PS/2 keyboard & you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

Open up regedit & navigate to that key (hkcu/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run[...]). Nothing runs f there's nothing there.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

I am in safe mode. Thats how I am on. normal startup restarts. I went to the location of Run etc but that blank isnt found..? Im tired of searching lol

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

If you can get into safe mode, you can get to the Enable Boot Logging option. Right-click on the Run Key under hkcu/etc... & see what the permissions look like.