robby

i hope someone can help quickly - i was reading my e-mails when an internet explorer message came up - "you have succesfully configured your hard drive for formatting. Next time you start this computer you will need to re-install your operating system" this message appears every 10 mins or so now. I haven't tried to format the drive, whats happening? i don't know whether to turn the computer off or leave it on permanently????????
What can i do to stop the formatting?

IanW

Run a full virus scan on your PC before you do anything, the fact that you were reading e-mails when this first started happening makes me thing you may have a virus.

Ian

Tony_W

Robby,

Go to this site and have a look for the "virus" which you may have..

http://search.symantec.com/custom/us/query.html

Tony

ScoobyDoo555

you can also go to :-

www.trend.com

find housecall - it's an online virus checker

Best of luck!!!

Dan

robby

well i've found 3 viruses - 2x kakworm and 1x js exeption

is there something i can download to clear these away?

cheers

suba

doesn't trendmicro online virus scanner delete the found viruses?

robby

nope, tells me to delete lines in the autoexec.bat file but i cant get into the file

boomer

robby,

you could always, er, buy some antivirus software

For example, McAfee VirusScan V6 is only £12.29 from jungle.com

Peace of mind for the price of a few pints of beer!

mb

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Why can't you get into the file?

Open a DOS session & try (don't shutdown/restart)

"Edit c:\autoexec.bat"

if its read only...

"Attrib -r autoexec.bat"

or -s if system file or -h if hidden...

robby

ok got into the autoexec file and deleted the 2 kak lines in the notepad thing (as told to) didn't dare to turn comp off last night though.
Guess i'll have to go to pc world tommorow and get a virus zapper

Silent Monkey

See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26586.html for an explanation of the message you saw! Still need to get rid of thise virii though!

nkh

LOL what's wrong with "Hello World"?

suba

read here as well about the virus! you can always use trendmicro online virus scanner.

JackClark

This link will install Antivirus software on your machine. It may or may not work, it comes with no support what so ever - unless I'm in a good mood and bored - and may well destroy your computer, car, house, cat, dog etc. But it's free - to the readers of this thread, not your mates - and works for a lot of people.

Antivirus Link

When it asks for your email address, add scoobynet at the start, like this scoobynetjclark@nai.com

One more thing you should know, I may be able to find out the names of any infected files you click on.