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| 547812 | 2007-05-06 22:02:00 | I have an XP machine and have some how managed to pick up a virus or some sort of spyware which has pretty much disabled my AVG and Spybot/Adaware etc... So I can not do a scan to find out what I have.... So I'm going to do a fresh clean reinstall of Windows. My hdd is partition in to two parts: C:\ (Windows) and D:\ (Data/storage etc).... Since getting the virus/spyware has my D:\ drive (which just has my storage on it) been compromised as well? And if I format and reinstall Windows on the C:\ drive could it then get reinfected from anything on the D:\ drive? Cheers. M. |
Mantis (3703) | ||
| 547813 | 2007-05-06 22:19:00 | Looks like a job for HJT.Someone will come along and point you in the right direction. Do not panic in the meantime. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 547814 | 2007-05-06 22:24:00 | Yeah I thought about HJT, but thought for piece of mind I might as well do a fresh install (it's about time anyway....), I was just hoping that all my data on the D:\ drive wouldn't be compromised and/or would reineffect a fresh installation of windows. Cheers. |
Mantis (3703) | ||
| 547815 | 2007-05-06 22:28:00 | It shouldn't affect D (or C), if you installed (did a clean install 0f XP on C:\). And you didnt install XP over XP. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 547816 | 2007-05-06 22:28:00 | HJT is handy to have and use now and again with any windows OS any way. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 547817 | 2007-05-06 22:31:00 | have you tried runnig your scans in safe mode ?......you should if you haven't | drcspy (146) | ||
| 547818 | 2007-05-06 22:31:00 | great, thanks for the help. Yep, HJT is a great tool and definitly worth having in the toolkit! M. |
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