Re: IE Hijack virus survived a full hard drive reformat


This does look like what you suggest, a "Messenger" file (it says
something like it's being sent from Messenger System? I can't isolate
this as it does not seem to run as a process when I check on Task
Manager). But this is the same thing that I got before I formatted the
hard drive - how and why would I end up with the same infection within
seconds unless there was something making my system particularly
susceptible to this? Surely there are loads of these viruses around,
how come the exact same thing??

Is there any way of getting rid of the messenger file without another
reformat?? Sorry, I'm a bit crap with computers....thanks!


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