From: "JohnnyJomp" <
[email protected]>
| Hi Malke.
| I reformatted the HD, installed XP Home, attached to the internet, and IE
| opened automatically everytime I booted up, going to a non-MS site.
| I reformatted, reinstalled another few times, and still have issues like a
| dos-like window opending up automatically, warning-like notices telling me to
| go to non-MS sites to download security software, etc.
| My antivirus software detects a virus that it can not rename, delete or
| disinfects, even after reformatting again, etc.
| John
Your symptoms are not that of a Boot Sector Infector.
You did state "My antivirus software detects a virus..." but you did not tell us the AV
application nor provide us with the fully qualified path and name of the infected file or
the name of the virus that file is infected with. It is more than difficult to provide help
with so little information.
Just to be sure, you can use the IVINIT utility at Invircible which handles boot sector
infectors.
http://www.invircible.com/iv_tools.php#Ivinit
You can also use the Multy vendor AV scanner utility for other types of viruses.
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, this PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove
viruses and various other malware.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE and/or FTP.EXE to go
through your FireWall to allow them to download the needed AV vendor related files.
* * * Please report back your results * * *
