Virus Survived Re-formatting?

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Stephen Horrillo

I had a virus in my P4 2.4ghz 1gb ram machine. I used fdisk to reformat it
then Windows Home Edition to format it again to NTFS. The virus (I guess
it's a virus) would shut the system off, it seems when certain files were
accessed. Norton couldn't scan it because of errors. So I did what Symantec
recommended. I scanned directory by directory. I found too many errors so I
decided to reformat.(AVG and Trend Micro online scan found nothing.) Now
that I reformatted. It's still doing the same thing! The last installation
wouldn't let me upgrade to service pack 2. After three tries this time I at
least have it fully upgraded. But it's still got problems. The "hide unused
icons doesn't work. (no arrow). This has me stumped.

What could be the problem?
 
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Will Hoenig

This is more than likely not a virus, and Norton found other idle viruses
that were just hanging in the background. The only thing that I can think
of is that you may not have a "genuine" legal copy of Windows. How/Where did
you acquire Windows XP?
 
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Stephen Horrillo

This is more than likely not a virus, and Norton found other idle viruses
that were just hanging in the background. The only thing that I can think

of is that you may not have a "genuine" legal copy of Windows. How/Where
did
you acquire Windows XP?
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It came installed my Systemax computer. It passeed the automatic test and
visual examples on www.howtotell.com.
 
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Stephen Horrillo

How can I check it? There's two banks, 512 each I guess.
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I checked it with Mem Test as was suggested. It showed all sorts of problems
but I put ram in from another computer that passed the memory test and it
failed in the bad machine. And BTW the speed and type of ram was identicle
so I know it's not the ram. Mem Test documentation said it may be the
motherboad. Do they mean the CPU? When the window install failed the
message (blue screen) said to check he ram and the video adapter.What should
the next test be and how do I do it?
 
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Jeffrey Kaplan

Begin Stephen Horrillo quote:

; I checked it with Mem Test as was suggested. It showed all sorts of problems
; but I put ram in from another computer that passed the memory test and it
; failed in the bad machine. And BTW the speed and type of ram was identicle
; so I know it's not the ram. Mem Test documentation said it may be the
; motherboad. Do they mean the CPU? When the window install failed the
; message (blue screen) said to check he ram and the video adapter.What should
; the next test be and how do I do it?

If RAM that is "good" in another machine is "bad" in this machine (and
visa versa), then you most likely have a mainboard problem. I think
the only way to fix that is to replace it.

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device, I will remove all extraneous mirrors from the lab and wear
polarized contact lenses at all times.
 

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