HELP!!! PLEASE!!! old virus reinfestation????

From: Michele (mnash_at_co.kern.ca.us)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:06:56 -0800

I know this is going to be long but I need to give you a
little back ground to work with. I am on a networked PC
(Windows 2000)and my email is on a group server. Awhile
back my pc was infected with virus/trojan and it look
like a hacker was even getting into it. It had to have
the hard drive completely reformatted and and everything
redone. My problem is that when this happened my
groupwise email started having problems a remote mailbox
was setup on my pc and I did need one there and my sent
mail folder went missing. I won't say it was deleted
because I can find the items I sent but I just can pull
the folder up and I had to create a new one. This
happened the same time all the RPC, Telephony and remote
procedures started operating on a windows 2000 operating
system that runs over a T1 line. I started disconnecting
from the network everynight but one night I forgot and I
don't know exactly what happened but all of a sudden I
came in one day after and my harddrive had been
reformatted and repartitioned my CDRW & CDR drives were
in constant boot state with nothing in the drive, and I
could no longer access my email or shared network
directory. I turned the PC over to the IT guy and try to
convince them I was hacked or had a virus but it was
clear they did not believe me because they said they had
the latest update of Virus scan running and it was being
updated daily. Now I have my PC back but the problems
started again. Progams I didn't install are showing up,
things are changing on my configuration constantly and I
files that say that they are one thing but on closer look
they are in fact commands and other actions totally
different. Is there any why that the old virus could
have reinfested itselfs self again on my pc and go
undetected because the IT guys here say that if I had a
virus/trojan it would be dectected because we get updated
on a daily bases. If anyone out there can help me with
this it would be great. Now that I using XP it is even
harder to convince the IT staff that somethings going on
and even harder to get my work done.

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