Trojan damages

[Guest Chad]

My computer was recently infected by trojans. It took sometime for me to

detect it because I was using avast at first. I switched to Kaspersky and

that did the trick. After the cleaning process, I can no longer open my hard

drives from My Computer the normal way (i.e. double clicking). When I double

click on their icons, an "Open With" dialog box appears.

 

I decided to repair my copy of winXP by reinstalling it (choosing the

Upgrade option). Everything went fine, only my IE (previously ver 7) rolled

back to ver 6 and WMP (previously version 11) rolled back to ver 9. I re

installed IE7 and WMP11.

 

Problems:

The IE7 icon does not show up in the start menu (I usually load IE from the

start menu). Everything works fine with IE 7 though...or so it seems...what

do i do?

 

My hard drives still do not behave normally. I'm planning to use a registry

cleaner soon. What do I do? Are registry cleaners advisable in my case?

[Guest Carlos]

RE: Trojan damages

 

Chad,

None of the regulars in this NG recommend the use of registry cleaners.

We sincerely discourage their use because they cause more problems than fixes.

If I were you I would go for a fresh install.

Backup your important data and go for it.

Carlos

 

"Chad" wrote:

> My computer was recently infected by trojans. It took sometime for me to

> detect it because I was using avast at first. I switched to Kaspersky and

> that did the trick. After the cleaning process, I can no longer open my hard

> drives from My Computer the normal way (i.e. double clicking). When I double

> click on their icons, an "Open With" dialog box appears.

>

> I decided to repair my copy of winXP by reinstalling it (choosing the

> Upgrade option). Everything went fine, only my IE (previously ver 7) rolled

> back to ver 6 and WMP (previously version 11) rolled back to ver 9. I re

> installed IE7 and WMP11.

>

> Problems:

> The IE7 icon does not show up in the start menu (I usually load IE from the

> start menu). Everything works fine with IE 7 though...or so it seems...what

> do i do?

>

> My hard drives still do not behave normally. I'm planning to use a registry

> cleaner soon. What do I do? Are registry cleaners advisable in my case?