laptop totally messed up

[kriani]

my acer aspire laptop was infected by a rootkit late in March2005 and
slowed down the performance considerably, which i noticed but didnt
give attention to. I first noticed the presence of a rootkit when
Spycatcher(Tenebril) detected it. After that for the first three days
the system would shutdown as soon i log in. Then the intervals between
each shutdown increased but for sometime and remained constant
thereafter.

I noticed some interesting things like:

1. totally disabling Spycatcher thereafter (every fresh installation)
2. system would shutdown everytime i tried to upgrade XP or any
existing software such as yahoo messenger.
3. if i tried to install clean XP, it will allow the installation to
progress only for sometime then shutdown itself..

now after some messup i managed to erase the XP, that too
incompletely..

im trying to use some Booting tools such as Active Killdisk,
HDDregenerator etc.. but everything is stopped abruptly..

i want to know whether RAM is affected or HDD is affected.. i also want
to know if there is anything that can be done to clean RAM/HDD totally
w/o being stopped in the middle..

thanks for any help..
Animesh

 

[Guest]

If you check on the microsoft website u can find windows XP boot disks, u
creat them on 6 floppies then u reboot with these and u should be able to get
a clean re-install, make sure you set your machine to boot to floppy first.