Re: IE Hijack virus survived a full hard drive reformat

An 'unprotected PC' connected to the internet can be infected within a
matter of minutes.
The virus didnt survive your formating, you just got reinfected.
BTW you cannot format your sys drive within win. You 'have' to use the cd.
Run an online scan via www.kaspersky.com or www.symantec.com
Once up and running, ensure win is updated, buy a decent AV app and install
a Firewall App
If you had these in the first place it is unlikely you would have been
infected, unless by user stupidity!
If you want any specific help on the virus you will have to give us a clue -
its name?!

"Cassius" <Cassius.1pw8hm@> wrote in message
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> I spent the best part of the weekend trying to fix my PC after Internet
> Explorer was hijacked whilst I tried to download some DVD ripping
> software - be careful guys. Having tried loads of antivirus / spyware
> removal software to no avail, and having noticed that this evil virus
> had badly messed with the registry of my PC, I decided that the only
> thing to do was to reformat the hard drive.
>
> First I found that the instructions for reformatting my XP hard drive
> would not work. I think the virus was preventing me from formatting it!
> I got down to the "Press Y to format" bit, pressed Y and got a circular
> prompt.
>
> I eventually found a way to do it, having tweeked BIOS and booting XP
> from CD instrad of hard drive. I managed to fully reformat the hard
> drive - all files gone. The first thing I installed was my internet
> connection. I had been connected for about five seconds before a pop-up
> appeared, telling me that my computer was infected. I had not even
> opened Internet Explorer yet.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before? A virus surviving a hard drive
> formatting?? Has this thing messed with the magnetic polarity of the
> particles of my physical hard drive??! Is there any way I will ever be
> able to shift this? It is pure evil....any ideas would be much
> appreciated. Thanks in avcance.
>
>
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