Sounds like you got ahold of one of the rare but not unheard of bugs that actually infect your boot sector. Sometimes you can mount a drive like that in an enclosure and connect it to a protected Windows computer and scan it. Typically if you are going to do a wipe and re-install, you should delete and recreate the partition, which the factory restore disk probably does not do.
As an aside, I have for years wondered if it wasn't the anti-virus vendors themselves who pay certain shady characters to come up with these viruses. Food for thought. Bob On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:09 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > I just consigned windows to a read-only VM for ever. If it wasn't for > Rev and it's failings on Linux, I wouldn't be running Windows at all. > > After getting a malware infection that disabled my AV and Windows > Defender, and wouldn't let me reinstall AV (not even from "safe" > mode), I restored the laptop from the official restore disks. That > restore failed. Then I tried to install vanilla Vista. That failed > (wouldn't accept the license number that came with the DVD, a DVD that > came directly from Microsoft themselves). So I went back to use XP -- > multiple BSODs, during the install. I considered getting Windows 7, > but after reading the reviews over on Amazon, I decided I wasn't > throwing more money at MS. > > I tried ubuntu 9.10. It asked a few questions, then installed in > about 20 mins, everything working. Ten years ago it was so hard to > get Linux up and running compared to Windows. Now the tables have > turned. If it wasn't for their abusive monopoly position, there is no > way MS would be able to get away with such rubbish. > > Bernard > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Andrew Kluthe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sounds like you got some hijacks or some other kind of malware. >> >> Look it over with Malware Bytes Anti-Malware. >> >> I haven't used "Adaware" in quite a few years, but it might give you some >> solutions as well. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n4.nabble.com/OT-Microsoft-is-really-annoying-tp1839949p1840457.html >> Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
