C: drive not showing in My Computer

[Guest Doug]

Attacked by spyware. My Computer shows only the G: from the printer's SD

slot, plus the shared documents folders. How did the program remove them

from the display?

Can't run regedit and several control panel items as the "System

Administrator" has prevented it.

Is there a simple way to recover after removing the spyware?

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Doug

[Guest Malke]

Re: C: drive not showing in My Computer

 

Doug wrote:

> Attacked by spyware. My Computer shows only the G: from the printer's SD

> slot, plus the shared documents folders. How did the program remove them

> from the display?

> Can't run regedit and several control panel items as the "System

> Administrator" has prevented it.

> Is there a simple way to recover after removing the spyware?

 

Simple way? Probably not. Since you didn't say what virus/malware you had or

how you removed it, I can't comment on how to recover or whether recovery

is actually possible. For all I know, your computer still isn't clean - and

that's what it sounds like.

 

Here is general malware removal information:

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

 

Include scanning with David Lipman's Multi_AV and follow instructions to do

all scans in Safe Mode.

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Multi-AV - instructions

http://tinyurl.com/yoeru3 - download link and more instructions

 

You can also check to see if there are targeted removal steps for your

malware here:

 

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html

 

If all else fails, either get guided help at one of the specialty forums

below OR back up your data and do a clean install of Windows. It is your

choice. If you are unsure how to back up your data or how to do a clean

install, you can take your machine to a local computer professional. I

don't recommend using BigComputerStore/GeekSquad types of places.

 

PLEASE DO NOT POST LOGS IN THE MS NEWSGROUPS.

 

http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip

http://aumha.net/ - Click on the HijackThis forum. Read the announcement and

the stickies *first*.

http://www.atribune.org/forums/index.php?showforum=9

http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cleanup

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malware_Removal_HiJackThis_Logs_Go_Here-f37.html

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=7

http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/index.php?showforum=170

http://spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=5

http://forums.techguy.org/54-security/

http://forums.tomcoyote.org/

http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/index.php?board=3.0

http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7

 

Malke

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