RE: Reformat Methods Don't Work?
- From: "Manfred" <Manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:01:02 -0800
Sue then you are more courageous that I. I'm nowhere near the experts that
are in here, I'd be afraid to flash my bios. However I've had a boot virus
where roughly the same things happened to me. There is a switch on the
motherboard to clear your bios should be a schematic diagram in the case...
if you can 't find it just pull the battery. Then reformat.
I've had a brand new machine and was just registering with microsoft and
compact presario when I ended up at a yahoo search page instead of microsoft
update so I know it happens. Every major firewall was useless,changing
isp,e-mail and passwords until I figured out that I had to hide the mac
address behind a router.
I hope this helps and I sympathize with you good luck.
"SueInCincy" wrote:
> Manfred and Lionel, thank you for your responses.
>
> Manfred, can you tell me more about clearing my bios? I downloaded a "Flash
> BIOS" utility from one of my computer's manufacturers, ran it, and then
> restarted with a boot-from-CD disk cleaner utility. Then I ran the system
> recovery disks, and I have not yet connected to the Internet.
>
> There are all kinds of troublesome files at the root of the C: Drive,
> including, pagefile.sys, hyberfile.sys, and NTDetect.com. All of which the
> computer manufacturer says should not be there at the point of just having
> run the system recovery media. Nor should all those compressed files be
> there, either.
>
> I appreciate all the help you offer. Thanks! Sue In Cincinnati.
>
> "Manfred" wrote:
>
> > been there. Try clearing your bios. (the new ones reset to factory defaults).
> > Possibly your mac address on your network card is known been there to. Been
> > there to didn't matter changing isp, e-mail and passwords. Free space virus.
> >
> > "SueInCincy" wrote:
> >
> > > I have tried to clear a hard drive (actually three of them) using the
> > > following methods:
> > >
> > > --OEM system recovery disks
> > > --full reformat with Windows XP disk
> > > --Three different brands of DOD-approved bootable CD "Disk Wipe" utilities
> > > --A full reformat by a large, well-respected computer repair facility
> > >
> > > Followed, of course, by the re-installation of the operating system from
> > > both a freshly purchased Windows XP (with SP 2) disk, and using the
> > > manufacturers' disks.
> > >
> > > In each case, a whole host of symptoms tell me, even before the machine is
> > > hooked up to the Internet, that it is not secure. Some of those symptoms
> > > include:
> > >
> > > --Many compressed files, with names that include "Java packages" and "Spybot
> > > - SEarch and Destroy Updates" even though Spybot was never a part of the
> > > original operating system
> > > --many copies of .exe Files, like "Windows Management Instrumentation" or
> > > WMI Performance Adapter Service, buried way deep inside very unlikely
> > > folders, several layers deep.
> > >
> > > Last but not least, this 80 meg hard drive, as it is being reformatted (and
> > > as it's verified) says there is only one partition, with something like 76
> > > megs.
> > >
> > > Is it possible that someone has figured out a way to make a big chunk of the
> > > hard drive invisible to all these different reformatting methods, or am I
> > > maybe missing something?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help and suggestions.
> > >
> > >
.
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