On 22 Mar 2005 at 20:48, Bruce Rice wrote: > I still can't see why it blasted away the files and why I couldn't write to > the drive. All I could see (using XpPe's explorer) on the drive C: was that > BDElog.txt file. After running XpPe's scandisk I got everything to boot just > like something had hidden all the directories and files and made the C: drive > Read-Only.
That's what happens when you have filesystem corruption, hence my suggestion to run chkdsk. > I found a few Ad-Ware nuisances and am now re-running the virus-scanner. My > son wanted to make a trip to town and I didn't finish the first virus scan. If > I find a guilty program I'll post it for you. Depending on what is actually infecting the machine, you'll need a lot more that that to clean it up. I typically spend 4-6 hours cleaning a machine.... I know from lots of experience, on a fast machine it will take 4 hours, on an older or slower machine..... Boot into safe mode, disable system restore, run trendmicro's tsc, run trojan hunter, run spybot and adaware, run hijack this, do manual removal of malware that the tools miss, then do all windows and other updates. This will require quite a few reboots. Once this is all done, boot into normal mode, install updates for you antivirus software, crank scanning settings up to the max, do another full system scan. Generally that covers it, however this assumes you have a lot of experience to read between the lines and deal with spyware and such. I have given this procedure to non technical clients over the phone and they've followed it and gotten their systems cleaned out, however YMMV. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
