Re: need serious help

From: Jerry (NoSpamChiefZeke_at_MSN.com)
Date: 02/23/04


Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:20:05 -0800

Reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch.

"cal" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:152d801c3fa43$3c32a250$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> hi a friend of mine was unfortunate enough to have the
> mydoom and blaster virus after removing the mydoom virus
> i attempted to get rid of the blaster but his pc shut
> down and wouldnt load up properly the screen just went
> blank and no start up page so we used the recovery disk
> which seemed to work but when we went to use the pc on XP
> on the start menu there are no programmes just email and
> internet but nothing else and i have tried downloading
> patches from microsoft but when i do this i get a message
> saying that we need to download previous updates first
> before activating the patch except we cant because of the
> virus. I could really do with someones help is it
> possible we have done something wrong. this is a major
> problem



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