anyone help?

Hi,

A few weeks ago my computer strarted behaving strangely. I turned it on
one morning and it started up as usual, and showed the desktop screen, but
then seemed to be completely pre-occupied 'doing something'. I could not
get it to open a program, or even move the mouse pointer at all. In fact it
was rendered useless.

I assume a virus is to blame, or some other type of malicious program. My
question is what can I do about it? I have tried re-installing the system
disks, but on switch on it isnt reading or responding to the CD drive.

Is there some sort of software I can use that will help?


Thanks

Jeremy Watts wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A few weeks ago my computer strarted behaving strangely. I turned it on
> one morning and it started up as usual, and showed the desktop screen, but
> then seemed to be completely pre-occupied 'doing something'. I could not
> get it to open a program, or even move the mouse pointer at all. In fact
> it was rendered useless.
>
> I assume a virus is to blame, or some other type of malicious program. My
> question is what can I do about it? I have tried re-installing the system
> disks, but on switch on it isnt reading or responding to the CD drive.
>
> Is there some sort of software I can use that will help?

It seems that your BIOS configuration skips the CD as a boot device, because
it speeds up the boot sequence. You can change the setting by hitting a
magic button (usually DEL) at proper time during start-up tests. The
details are in the manual of the motherboard.

-- Lassi

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:01:18 GMT, "Jeremy Watts"
<jwatts1970@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I assume a virus is to blame, or some other type of malicious program. My
>question is what can I do about it? I have tried re-installing the system
>disks, but on switch on it isnt reading or responding to the CD drive.
>
>Is there some sort of software I can use that will help?

Have a look at this pages -recommended in alt.comp.virus:

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

You will find more help in the newsgroup mentioned above.

Geo