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[mr Mag00]

hello no it is not sorted been offline

I am thinking about adding a new harddrive and installing windows on that. making that the boot drive and then trying to clean the old hdd and remove the windows component from it. would that work?

 

[peanut]

I thought satan's budgie was helping you off line ? what happened ? what sort of things have you tried ?

 

[mr Mag00]

peanut pm'd you

 

[MacB]

try this link, I had the same virus, I downloaded the malwarebytes stuff via another machine to a memory stick. Search by username 'homosap' on the forum and you'll see the thread where they walked me through the fix.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=167209&st=0&p=933384&#entry933384

 

[mr Mag00]

well i have finally sorted it out. a trojan win32tdss.rtk. took numerous passes of various progammes some offerd from here and others too and a delve into the registry. spybot kept finding it but couldnt remove it so into the registry i went

thansk for all the advice

 

[peanut]

well done that man we won't embarrase you further by asking you what sites you have been visiting lately

 

[mr Mag00]

ive been going there for years why now do i get infected

 

[peanut]

ive been going there for years why now do i get infected

you wer'nt wearing a condom

 

[mr Mag00]

hahaha

has anyone heared of acronis as a backup suite, anygood?

 

[goo_mason]

hahaha

has anyone heared of acronis as a backup suite, anygood?

I use it - could never get it working to hold incremental backups after a full backup though. I had it set to delete the old ones after so many new ones, then set to delete old backups once a certain amount of space was left on the disk, etc etc. None of them worked - it just kept filling my 400Gb external HDD until the backups started failing.

Now I use it to create a new disk image of my two internal HDDs once a week. That seems to work fine, though it does take all day to do it (whereas incremental backups would be MUCH quicker if they actually worked).

The newer versions of the software may have fixed all that though; I'm just too tight to pay to upgrade in case the problem's still there....