WIN 32: Ramnit- B

[philipb231190]

Your system must be a slightly later version than the one I checked out - so there is no need for F10

Follow the destructions under Recovering from Windows XP

And you should be good to reformat if you wish

Okay went to Start/All Programs/PC HELP & TOOLS/Compaq System Recovery and it asks me do I want to start System Recovery. When I click Yes the computer restarts and then just boots up to normal windows again so basically nothing happens it just makes my computer restart.

[essexboy]

Have you created any recovery discs ?

[philipb231190]

Have you created any recovery discs ?

Unfortunately not

I guess that's my only option left then is to create them?

[essexboy]

Yes - according to my reading you should be able to create them as it uses the files on the D drive to create the discs

[philipb231190]

Yes - according to my reading you should be able to create them as it uses the files on the D drive to create the discs

Yea just saw the option to do it in PC Help and Tools. Thanks for the help, much appreciated. Just outa interest, have you got any idea what is actually stopping me from doing system recovery?

[essexboy]

I feel your MBR has been tampered with and is stopping F10 from being used, if I tried to repair it, it would remain useless.  So if you do a recovery then go for the destructive one

[philipb231190]

I feel your MBR has been tampered with and is stopping F10 from being used, if I tried to repair it, it would remain useless.  So if you do a recovery then go for the destructive one

Okay no problem, will do. For anyone else that ends up with this virus then its ComboFix that gets rid of it. Everything else I tried( Including Destructive restore) didn't work.