virus help please - poorly pc

RussJK

Not surprised you're a bit brain boggled - all that red bull and beer.

The whole point of the rescue disks is that you boot the system off of them, and bypass the hard drive completely - so you have to restart the computer and hit F12 (or whatever key it says for the Boot Menu options), and select the CD Rom. You don't want to run Windows at all, as the rootkit (if it's still there) is loading before Windows and is in control, which is why it's difficult to remove or detect as it actively hides itself and other trojans.

The rescue disks allow you to bypass this and run a scan without the rootkit being active.

Hopefully you burnt them under Imgburn correctly

HalfPint

ok..here goes....fingers crossed.....gulp

lol

HP x

HalfPint

still here:rotfl:

back on the laptop...Aviras loaded, updated and is now scanning.

I'm off out for a bit but i'll be back

RussJK

Lol okay good Me too, got to bake a carrot cake to use up all these carrots haha.

Does the XP install disc say which service pack it is? If not, might be worth making an XP SP3 disk so you can repair the computer if you need to. Also will let you copy a clean version of atapi.sys without breaking anything!
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/creating-an-xp-sp3-slipstreamed-iso-file/1848

Good luck, I'll be back on in the evening, but will check in a few hours.

HalfPint

evening..is the carrot cake tasty?

run avira and now running dr web...after 5 hours, it's currently at 15% and found a couple of dloader.trojans. 8 threats detected in total, 4 malicous and 4 suspicious, 0 infected.

will leave it running overnight...I'm not able to stay awake til 2am again I ain't 21 anymore lol...and will post results in the morning. when it's finished, should I cure all it finds?

My xp disc is service pack 2, so I need to make a service pack 3 disc..will do that tmrw also.

sleep well.

HP x

HalfPint

update

dr web at 97%...27.5 hrs later. had some problems creating the sp3 disc so going to try that again.

will keep you posted.

hope you had a nice day in Wales

HP x

spud17

HalfPint wrote: »

...... had some problems creating the sp3 disc so going to try that again.

HP x

Not sure how you're trying to achieve this, but you really should be using nLite. The site is a bit sparse but the guides do work.

From the link, read Main, Requirements, Part 1 etc, it's not *that* obvious if you're new to it.
Apologies if you've already sussed it.

HalfPint

hiya spud,

thanks

I did use nlite..followed instructions on link but when it came to the bit where you merge (?right phrasing) the sp3 download to the source files...nlite said that there was already "hotfixes" and the streamlining may not work properly. I seemed to somehow get past that (tho no idea how:o) but then it didn't go one to ask me about making an .iso file/cd...I got a screen saying successfully and "finish"

so I managed the first bit but not the second...no idea what/where I went wrong. not tried it again yet as too tired but will try it tmrw morning and hoping dr web will be finished by then lol...it's still at 97% and has been since about 2pm

HP x

spud17

but then it didn't go one to ask me about making an .iso file/cd

It's ages since I slipstreamed XP sp3, but IIRC there is an easily overlooked box in part 3.

HalfPint

yep...thats the screen I didn't get.

will start over again this morning and try again