RE: Malicious Software Removal Tool Errors Reported



"nass" wrote:


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HTH.
nass
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http://www.nasstec.co.uk

Thanks Nass.

I have run most of these already but will try the ones I was unaware or
hadn't thought of - the MSR tool has reported in this way for the last 3
months of running and I was concerned that there might be a virus.

The only problem is that if there is a virus then it is not apparent when
Windows is loaded and running normally except when i have run a scheduled
chkdisk prior to startup. If I do this, once the check has completed and
Windows has loaded I cannot open any anti-virus utilities, the control panel
or the processes tab of Task Manager - so I can't see what's running. I can
however open any other applications (apart from Outlook). A reboot always
fixes this.

This led me to believe that there was a boot-time virus so I downloaded a
virus scanner that would operate in dos and also made a floppy to allow me to
access my NTFS disc from the A: drive on boot - however I cannot get further
than the computer booting and recognising the A: drive, it reports that there
is no C: drive (or any other drive for that matter) when I try to change
directory to run the dos virus scan.

I actually changed the boot hard drive last week, using a clean disc and
having neither of my other 2 HD's connected when I was installing windows.
The same behaviour in Windows after running a chkdsk is still apparent. Is
it possible for there to be a virus in the hardware other than the hard
drive? I don't use any memory keys or the like so the only possible place I
can think of is the RAM which has checked out clean every time I've scanned.

As you may be able to tell I am not particularly knowledgable about viri so
any help or suggestions you can give would be much appreciated.

DavidB
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