shaunyboy

Hi starbuck , i have hit a small snag i think while doing this, this will be my first re-format and reinstall ... my friend doesnt have a Vista install Cd. The Laptop was factory built with the OS installed. Whats the best way to sort this ? Will i need to purchase a copy of vista even though its on there ? Theres a recovery partition but i cant back this up either as DEP causes it to crash !! Bad times!!

Thanks starbuck , i am going to wipe the thing clean tonight. Theres alot of P2P downloads on there. So to be safe i am going to reformat and re-install the OS from the start. No major fils on it that need to be saved (phew) Thanks for the assist :) Shaun

Thanks Starbuck , thats pretty much my fears confirmed!! i have spoken to my friend and he is calling up his bank and credit card co and changing all his passwords on my laptop as its clean. I am going to try a full reformat and install the OS again for him .. so is it likely that this trojan will be there regardless ? is there anyway once i have done the reformat to make sure there is no longer any traces of the trojans ? Thanks for your help so far :)

Hi All , I am a bit stumped here !! I have been looking at a friends laptop for him after he downloaded a dodgy music track online. It basically installed a 'fake' windows security alert telling him to download a paid virus protection called paladin to remove it. I managed to get one care up and running on the laptop and removed the trojans on it .. they were : PWS:WIN32/Zbot.gen!R Trojan:Win32/fakecog Trojan:Win32/alureon.DA Trojan:Win32/hiloti.gen!D Trojan:JS/Gord.B TrojanDownloader:Win32/Reno... A bunch of really nasty data stealing trojans! :( if i try to use his laptop to get back online now .. thinking they had been removed .. either google chrome or IE crashes and i get the message it has been closed due to the data execution programme. Is the laptop still infected somehow ? If so does anyone have any idea how i can get the system back to its old self ? Or is it pretty much a full re-format the only way to go ? Also the trojans listed are pretty nasty data stealers is this something my friend will now need to change al his online passwords etc .. ?? Any help would be great!!