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| Thread ID: 92829 | 2008-08-24 11:31:00 | "C" drive gone | bozman (14114) | Press F1 |
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| 700009 | 2008-08-24 11:31:00 | hi every body.. i know a fair bit about computers and this one has me stumped.. my boss downloaded xp anti virus off the net on purpose on advise of his mate .. totaly stuffing the computer so with all the problems fixed to the point of the xp antivirus and some other problems fixed and gone .. in my computer on the desktop "C" is gone "A" is there "D" is there.. .. in windows explorer all is there .. but not "C" drive... im supposed to fix it monday as usually what probs come up i can fix .. thanks in advance for any input as i will try anything short of a format.. bozman | bozman (14114) | ||
| 700010 | 2008-08-24 21:12:00 | "XP Antivirus" is NOT antivirus - but spyware disguised as av. Download and run Malwarebytes and the 30-day trial of Eset Nod32 to try and remove it. After that, remove Eset and install the free Avast Home Edition. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 700011 | 2008-08-24 21:53:00 | my boss downloaded xp anti virus .. totaly stuffing the computer so with all the problems fixed .. in my computer on the desktop "C" is gone "A" is there "D" is there .. .. So what fix did you do to get rid of the malware? A new install of Windows, cause it sounds to me like you deleted C: partition and did a new install which has caused the boot partition to be D:. Anyway getting malware doesn't "totally stuff the computer". |
pctek (84) | ||
| 700012 | 2008-08-24 22:03:00 | Another thing that can cause this is group policy settings - we do just this at work to stop the students messing with things they shouldn't be. The net result is that the drive is still there, and behaving as it should be, but completely invisible and inaccessable via normal means. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 700013 | 2008-08-24 22:30:00 | try rogue remover, it removes fake software such as yours | Blam (54) | ||
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