Virus Survived Re-formatting?

[Stephen Horrillo]

I had a virus in my P4 2.4ghz 1gb ram machine. I used fdisk to reformat it
then Windows Home Edition to format it again to NTFS. The virus (I guess
it's a virus) would shut the system off, it seems when certain files were
accessed. Norton couldn't scan it because of errors. So I did what Symantec
recommended. I scanned directory by directory. I found too many errors so I
decided to reformat.(AVG and Trend Micro online scan found nothing.) Now
that I reformatted. It's still doing the same thing! The last installation
wouldn't let me upgrade to service pack 2. After three tries this time I at
least have it fully upgraded. But it's still got problems. The "hide unused
icons doesn't work. (no arrow). This has me stumped.

What could be the problem?


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Warmest regards,

Stephen

[Will Hoenig]

This is more than likely not a virus, and Norton found other idle viruses
that were just hanging in the background. The only thing that I can think
of is that you may not have a "genuine" legal copy of Windows. How/Where did
you acquire Windows XP?

"Stephen Horrillo" > wrote in message
...
>I had a virus in my P4 2.4ghz 1gb ram machine. I used fdisk to reformat it
> then Windows Home Edition to format it again to NTFS. The virus (I guess
> it's a virus) would shut the system off, it seems when certain files were
> accessed. Norton couldn't scan it because of errors. So I did what
> Symantec
> recommended. I scanned directory by directory. I found too many errors so
> I
> decided to reformat.(AVG and Trend Micro online scan found nothing.) Now
> that I reformatted. It's still doing the same thing! The last installation
> wouldn't let me upgrade to service pack 2. After three tries this time I
> at
> least have it fully upgraded. But it's still got problems. The "hide
> unused
> icons doesn't work. (no arrow). This has me stumped.
>
> What could be the problem?
>
>
> --
> Warmest regards,
>
> Stephen

[D.Currie]

Bad ram.

"Stephen Horrillo" > wrote in message
...
>I had a virus in my P4 2.4ghz 1gb ram machine. I used fdisk to reformat it
> then Windows Home Edition to format it again to NTFS. The virus (I guess
> it's a virus) would shut the system off, it seems when certain files were
> accessed. Norton couldn't scan it because of errors. So I did what
> Symantec
> recommended. I scanned directory by directory. I found too many errors so
> I
> decided to reformat.(AVG and Trend Micro online scan found nothing.) Now
> that I reformatted. It's still doing the same thing! The last installation
> wouldn't let me upgrade to service pack 2. After three tries this time I
> at
> least have it fully upgraded. But it's still got problems. The "hide
> unused
> icons doesn't work. (no arrow). This has me stumped.
>
> What could be the problem?
>
>
> --
> Warmest regards,
>
> Stephen

[Stephen Horrillo]

On 30-Jan-2005, "Will Hoenig" > wrote:

> This is more than likely not a virus, and Norton found other idle viruses
> that were just hanging in the background. The only thing that I can think
>
> of is that you may not have a "genuine" legal copy of Windows. How/Where
> did
> you acquire Windows XP?

It came installed my Systemax computer. It passeed the automatic test and
visual examples on www.howtotell.com.

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Warmest regards,

Stephen

[Stephen Horrillo]

On 30-Jan-2005, "D.Currie" > wrote:

> Bad ram.

How can I check it? There's two banks, 512 each I guess.

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[MAP]

"Stephen Horrillo" wrote:

>
> On 30-Jan-2005, "D.Currie" > wrote:
>
> > Bad ram.
>
> How can I check it? There's two banks, 512 each I guess.
>
> --
> Warmest regards,
>
> Stephen Horrillo
> To sell or buy a home: http://stephenhorrillo.point2homes.biz
> For Broker & Agent Training: www.BrokerAgentTraining.com
> A EXIT Realty earn over 100%: www.over100percent.com
>

Test your ram with this.
http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

[Stephen Horrillo]

On 30-Jan-2005, "Stephen Horrillo" > wrote:

> On 30-Jan-2005, "D.Currie" > wrote:
>
> > Bad ram.
>
> How can I check it? There's two banks, 512 each I guess.

I checked it with Mem Test as was suggested. It showed all sorts of problems
but I put ram in from another computer that passed the memory test and it
failed in the bad machine. And BTW the speed and type of ram was identicle
so I know it's not the ram. Mem Test documentation said it may be the
motherboad. Do they mean the CPU? When the window install failed the
message (blue screen) said to check he ram and the video adapter.What should
the next test be and how do I do it?

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Warmest regards,

Stephen Horrillo

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

Begin Stephen Horrillo quote:

; I checked it with Mem Test as was suggested. It showed all sorts of problems
; but I put ram in from another computer that passed the memory test and it
; failed in the bad machine. And BTW the speed and type of ram was identicle
; so I know it's not the ram. Mem Test documentation said it may be the
; motherboad. Do they mean the CPU? When the window install failed the
; message (blue screen) said to check he ram and the video adapter.What should
; the next test be and how do I do it?

If RAM that is "good" in another machine is "bad" in this machine (and
visa versa), then you most likely have a mainboard problem. I think
the only way to fix that is to replace it.

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