Windows On Screen Notice that my C Drive Would Begin to be Deleted

[JIM MEAGHER]

8-21-2003, 4PM, I heard a striking sound coming from the
my Dell laptop. Every second a loud striking sound
(similar to a hammer hitting a pipe) A message was on the
black screen stating that it would start to delete my C
Drive. I turned off the power. When I restarted, the
following message was on a black screen: "Primary HDD not
found. Fixed optical drive not found. No bootable
device: strike F1 to retry boot(nothing happened); F2 for
setup utility:. I closed down and restarted in safe
mode. After a few tries I was able to get everything
working. I didn't lose any files. I run Zone Alarm with
daily updates. I ran Zone Alarm and there's no indication
of a virus. I'm running Windows XP. My question is what
happened to generate this initial warning notice? Thanks.

 

[sgopus]

You have some type of virus. Zone alarm is not an
antivirus software, and also doesn't have daily updates,
more like whenever they decide to update, sounds like you
have something else confused as zone alarm.

Scan your system with a valid virus checker piece of
software, there are many out there, some free. as your
system seems to already be infected, you may have a
problem getting AV installed, I would suggest you purchase
something that has a bootable CD and scan your system
after a power off, with that.