Re: Now What?

From: "Ringlord" <1ringlord@xxxxxxxxxxx>

| Sorry about lack of Tech terminology
| Windows XP SP2
| Been struggling 2 weeks now. Have one Admin. account and two limirted
| accounts.
| Booted up and all icons crowded to left of screen. PC very slow.
| Re-arranged Admin icons o.k but limited acco8unts won't stay changed.
| Also limited accounts gives only colored backgrown to desktop and won't
| change, Taskbar is locked and won't change and cannot reach certain
| online sites.
|
| I have Spyware, BOClean and SpywareGuard running and I have run in
| Normal and Safe modes all the following:
| Anti-AV (Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky) ,Norton AV, AdAware, The
| Cleaner, CounterSpy, Ewido, MSAS, Spybot, TrojanHunter.
| Ewido found a mess of tracking cookies and ate them but nothing eles was
| found except a few errors amd som inaccessable files except for
| Kaspersky. Kaspersky statet it found two viruses in Normal mode and four
| viruses in Safe Mode but it did not clean them nor name the viruses so I
| knew what I had. I have tried to revert using an old copy of Go Back and
| using System Restore. Neither will revert to an earlier day.
| Any suggestions as to next step(s)? I have a *Ghost* back-up about 6
| months old but hate to lose that much data. I am considering new limited
| accounts and deleting the old affected ones and of course there's the
| old 'junk and chunk' option. Any other alternative(s) greatly
| appreciated by this not too PC literate guy with mucho thanks. Sob.

Create a new Ghost image.

Restore the old Ghost image.

Update the PC with all MS Critical Updates and other software updates.
Extract data from newly created Ghost image and when satisfied, create a new Ghost image
representing the working platform with restored data.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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