Netbook and virus....aAAGGHHH!!!

Banzai_Joe

Banzai_Joe

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Ok, so the ex-wife (bint), gets the 'System Tools' virus, which in itself can be easy to remove in safe mode etc.
However after getting rid of a load of spyware related garbage with superantispyware and rebooting, it would no longer boot into safe mode for me to fully eradicate it.
So, i used the 'tech guys recovery' partition (guess where this turkey came from :rolleyes:), to restore to factory settings....it reboots....aaaand....
"BOOTMGR is missing"
que le f...????

Obviously, these things don't have rom drives, so i've tried making a bootable usb disk with xp recovery console on, so i can run chksk or fixboot, fixmbr etc, but that fails saying "NTLDR is missing".

Gawd knows why, i've followed the instruction off t'inters to the letter.
It's an Advent 4490 and the techguys website is next to useless.

Anyone got any ideas for me please?
 
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Thanks tempac, the combofix is for when i'm actually in windows isn't it? and the ntldr on usb stick solution isn't working, nothing short of nuking it from orbit (only way to be sure).
Poxy purple shirt brigade!
Think the only way is to buy an external rom drive and simply reformat/reinstall.
 
Banzai_Joe said:
Thanks tempac, the combofix is for when i'm actually in windows isn't it? and the ntldr on usb stick solution isn't working, nothing short of nuking it from orbit (only way to be sure).
Poxy purple shirt brigade!
Think the only way is to buy an external rom drive and simply reformat/reinstall.
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Couldn't you use the windows environment thing? I can't really remember what its called, but its apparent in this: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk you would then be 'in windows' all be it not your windows, you would then be able to sort out the NTDLR issue: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ntldr-is/6920612c-502c-475b-92b4-7941da259890

However, once you're in the Windows Environment via Hirrens, you should then crucially have access to System Restore don't you?

Or you could use the Windows Disk 'Repair' option, providing of course you have an external DVDr.
 
Just reformat it and start again. After you've had a virus it'll never be the same again.
 
Muel said:
Just reformat it and start again. After you've had a virus it'll never be the same again.
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I appreciate the reply mate, but please read my earlier posts. I don't have an external rom drive, so trying to boot from USB is the only option right now.
 
My net book picked up a nasty when I was looking at the Auto trader web site, wtf?
I was a nightmare to get rid of. it was the safe mode one, it stopped my AV loading and auto ran on start up even in safe mode [the real safe mode that is]
I Got rid of it by cutting and pasting the exe that had installed itself and 6 other files with the same time stamp on them.
Only problem was that it had nuked system restore and a few system functions were ballsed up as well.
MSI recovery to the rescue now downloading a shed load of updates.
 
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