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Forget of whatever i had posted. It's over... It's over~~~ :( Dear helpers, now when i scan my PC, i can no longer find the virus. What is worse is, the virus had already intrigate my system. Everytime when i open a I.E browser, the error message pops out. The one which states "I.E has encountered a problem and needed to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Send error report or don't send button to choose from. i guess how to clear the trojan is no longer important, i just want to know that if i reformat or reinstall windows, will all my problems and trojan be gone? What i want to know that will i be able to keep whatever i have in my other drives (partitions) and just reinstall the main drive the window drive. Can someone please guide me and show me the steps to reinstall / reformat my drive. I'm using WinXP. I wish to print out the list of steps which i can follow because i'm just a pc dummy. Most important is that i must keep my Drive:C and Drive:E (Personal Drive) and reinstall or reformat the window drive (Drive F: ) (I'm not sure of the actual word to use, either to reinstall or reformat). when i see others do it, sometimes it can be as easy as just inserting the winXP cd into in and reinstall. While sometimes, i see other do it in MS DOS during startup, they had to startup from cd-rom drive, and do alot of commands. Any way to save my Drive C: and Drive E: but still remove everything away from my windows drive F: ? I don't want my info to be lost. By doing so, i guess my i.e will get back to normal working condition and hopefully my trojan which had be bothering me all these while will be gone. Thank you Please assist Rgds Wilz

Thanks for the reply maynardvdm, Is all this consider location? I did a scan and found out that the trojan's location come under these above mentioned. But what location is that ? It is not something like "C:ABC\123\abcxyz.exe" where i can delete by going to C Drive and folders ABC etc. So how do i delete them away if they are like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCEEX ? They had name like "trojandownloader.busky" sounds scary to me. Can my PC be save?

After a scan search is done using some recommended sites (doesn't include removal), i found out where the root cause of my problem came from.. i manage to found out these, but the problem is .. how do i remove them? It's not some .exe or file <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCEEX> <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE> <HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN> <HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE> <HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN> <HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE> <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWSNT\CURRENTVERSION\WINDOWS\APPINIT_DLLS> <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\POLICIES\EXPLORER\RUN>

Thanks maynardvdm, I did try on the trend micro scanning. Unfortunately to no effect. It manage to scan through my PC without having able to detect the trojan root problem. I did a small research and realise that my "Ultimate Defender 2007" and "Ultimate Cleaner 2007" are both TROJANS. I'm devastated after knowing it. Everytime i start my PC, the auto installation for either of this 2 Trojans will appear. What shoud i do? I dare not try those site that claims to remove Ultimate Defender/Cleaner 2007 for i fear it will make matter worse. For me, i know that i should not run these programs. But what about my other family members or someone else especially kids. I am afraid they would run the programs and install it. Please advice helpers. (Note: Any guest or members who happen to view this topic, just something to take note. Don't be fool when being ask to download or install some so call virus, trojans removal or cleaner. They would appear a list of critical, dangerous, mild files that should be remove from your PC. And they would recommend you to install it to remove them. I being a victim outsmart by the name of it and installed it. PLS DO NOT INSTALL ANYTHING WHICH HAVE NO LICENSE OR YOU HAD NO INTENTION.)

Thanks for the reply Sir, I had avast on access scanner all the while. That's how i remove the trojan everytime i it alerted me. Same goes to Ad-Aware. I had it on my PC. I would like to highlight another issue regarding the root of this problem. It seems that everytime i remove it, the next time i reboot my computer, it appears. This time i noted the name of the trojan, it is name as below: "Win32:Small-DZV" I wonder if this is related with the previous trojan stated in my previous post? Any advice? I had got this remove this time. But not sure if it is permanently. Last problem i had is the popping up of anti virus software asking me to download. I do not think that those so called "Anti-virus" software is genuine. Everytime when i'm on different sites, these different popup window will appear asking me to run the .exe files. From memory, these "anti virus" software is named ultimate cleaner and ultimate defender. I cannot remember if i had download them but if i had, i would have already removed. I suspect these auto pop up window is linked with the virus i have had all these while. I would very much love to hear advices from the patient and kind helpers here. Hopefully there's way to solve my problem.

I had a problem logging on the my messenger for days and i come to a conclusion that messenger service wasn't down. I tried using other passport to log in, and easily it could be logged in. I immediately did a scan and unfortunately rit says that my OS contain virus. I had to idea of what the name of this virus/trojan is. But one thing is that, everytime i perform a scan, i will be alerted of that virus/trojan which i wasn't sure it was the cause of my problem. Everytime i remove it, it comes back againat the next scan. Malware name " Win32:Small-EDU [Trj] " Trojan Horse " Trojan Horse " I would really appreciate if i can find out ways to remove this trojan/virus.. Any online scan can be done and remove? Most important is to able me to remove it without having the trouble to re format my computer. Thanks Your every little help would be very much appreciated.

After installing a game enhancement software on my pc, i deleted it away by right clicking and delete. Now i realise that inside control panel; add/remove programe the programe is still inside. Hence when i go ahead to remove it in the add/remove programe, an error message appear saying "Could not load intialization file" thus unable me to remove it. Very much appreciate it if you can guide me on how to remove it.

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Thanks for the reply Jamey, i've check my thumbdrive and it does not by any means have a locking switch. So that brings the problem to the corruption of the partition. Anyway to resolve this? For your info, this thumbdrive of mine doesen't come with any driver or if have, i've misplace it as it's been a long time ago stuff. I hope there's still means of revival ways for my precious thumbby :)

I've been using this thumb drive for quite a long time, but after i stop using for awhile i cant access the thumb drive anymore. Everytime i try to access it says 'The disk in drive G is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" Click "Yes", error message will appear "The disk in drive G cannot be formatted" Click "No", nothing happen. When i view the properties of my thumb drive, it reads 0bytes free space 0bytes used space, capacity 0bytes Type: Removable Disk File System: RAW ______________________________________________ USB Device Properties GENERIC USB Mass Storage USB Device ______________________________________________ Can anyone help me? Is my thumbdrive useless and can be dispose, or still it has hope of reviving?