Trojan warning

[mainman]

Formatting...

The Format command simply verifies that data clusters are readable, and then wipes all the file information needed by your Operating System to access the data on that drive. The drive is perceived as empty by Windows, so over time your old data is overwritten with new data, but immediately after formatting, your old data is still accessible by file-recovery software and other techniques.

Debugging deletes all partition and sector info, after debugging is complete you will have to run fdisk and set up partitions, then format and reinstall operating system...

 

[mainman]

Fyi...

Virus
Instructions for Debugging a Hard Drive
faq602-1569

Instructions for Debugging a Hard Drive

Note: If you are debugging a drive due to a possible virus DO NOT SKIP ANY STEPS to insure virus is completely removed from the drive.

1) Boot to a Dos Bootable disk.
2) Type : DEBUG[Enter]

(Type the following EXACTLY as you see it. You only type what begins with a letter.)

-F 200 L1000 0 (ENTER)
-A CS:100 (ENTER)
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 (ENTER)
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 (ENTER)
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 (ENTER)
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (ENTER)
xxxx:010C INT 13 (ENTER)
xxxx:010E INT 20 (ENTER)
xxxx:0110 (ENTER) <---BLANK LINE - IMPORTANT! >
-G (ENTER)
Program terminated normally -(CTRL)(ALT)(DEL)

3) Type: FDISK[Enter]

a. Do you wish to enable Large Disk Support : YES
b. Chose Option 1: Create Primary/Extended Partition or Logical Dos Drive
c. Chose Option 1: Create Primary DOS Partition
d. Use Maximum size allowed. (Yes)

4) REBOOT

5) Type: FDISK /MBR[Enter]
This takes you right back to an A:>

6) REBOOT

9) Type: FORMAT C:[Enter] (When you see the warning that data will be erased, hit yes, all data is already gone.)

10) Reinstall OS

 

[scupper trout]

Not clean.. but it is supposed to "release" everything on the drive to be "written over". Like I said there are programs that can retrieve files even after a format.

I'm kinda curious about this debugging thing to.

Here is the link for Cr*p Cleaner. It's a neat tool for removing old files, dll extensions and questionable registry entries.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

I've used it for some time and does a good job of removing stuff that may be harmful especially after my better half loads up the computer with spyware and a gazillion cookies from AOL.

 

[Vince]

Whew, I thought this was an alert about defective condoms.

 

[Tonio]

Whew, I thought this was an alert about defective condoms.

TROJAN-MAAAAN!

 

[alex]

I use PC-Cillin's Internet Security program. It is one great program. It tells you about updates daily not weekly like Norton. Every since I installed this program I never have items found when I run Spybot or Adaware.

 

[virgovictoria]

My Dell laptop came with MacAffe. I tried it for a while and did not like it much. I loaded the Norton internet security I already had. I like it more, I am not sure why.

I use Norton Internet Security too. I do a quick definition update several times a day and a complete scan and clean up every week. It does it automatically per the program and prompts me for the clean up or repair fixes as needed.

I give Norton