One Nasty Virus/Trojan - Kills all virus scanners

[edifyguy]

Is it a TRUE window, or are you in a blue text-mode setup? My instructions are for the text-mode setup. If it's a window, you've got something different, and repair may be the correct first click.

[Lynn210]

The bugger knows it tried to repair this version once before .. it is checking to see where it left off and if it can pick up there or start over I guess.. it is copying files.. so my guess is it is going to start over..

[edifyguy]

That's OK. Nothing wrong with that.

I believe we've removed at least most of the malicious stuff from where it can hinder the repair process. I expect that the repair should be able to complete now, especially since we now have the full driver for the SATA controller available. (You did unzip the rest of those files......didn't you?)

Keep me posted!

[Lynn210]

It has picked up where it left off.. says 37 minutes to complete
so far it is not asking for the driver... so I guess I will see you in
30 minutes

[Lynn210]

OK it asked for the file again.
I went to C: intel and now it is saying that the software I am trying to install for this hardware did not pass the Windows logo testing to verify it is compatible with XP

Then there is a warning you probably know what that says

Should I keep going?

[Lynn210]

At the beginning of this thread I gave essexboy my Dell service tag number
which gives a list of the EXACT hardware that is on the sick computer.

If that will help get the right driver here is the tag again: F57KQB1
At the Dell Site it does not ask for a password.. you just plug the
tag number in and up comes the computer specifics.

If it doesn't matter.. or can be fixed later.. then let me know..
I will wait to hear.

[edifyguy]

Yes, that's fine. All that is is a Windows self-protection that says it doesn't know about this. Go ahead and use it.

It's not signed because it's not really meant for use like we're using it......but it'll be fine. 

EDIT: It's NOT saying that it's not the right driver, only that it can't prove that it has been certified with XP.

[Lynn210]

One thing curious about this install..

Before this whenever I boot up the version of Windows in the boot sequence always said WIndows XP MEdia Center or something to that effect.. now it says
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

[Lynn210]

This is curious.. it is asking for the disk that says
"HP Scanning Software"

That did not come with this computer

The HP scanner is part of an ALL IN ONE I bought later

The disk is totally unrelated to Dell or to Windows

I will put the disk in and see what happens

[edifyguy]

That's because the Media Center Edition is an extension of XP Professional. There's a few little pieces added in that make Pro into MCE. Not a great deal of difference, and even if you did end up with Pro instead of MCE I doubt that you'd notice the difference.

On an interesting side note, I have Avast! for Linux working on my Puppy test box! I made a self-installing .PET file of it, and if it proves beneficial, I could easily have it running on yours too. I think F-prot has done the job, but if we need something Avastier to finish the job, now we can.

I frankly wish I had tried this sooner, as it was so easy to get it working that we could have used Avast! for Linux to scan instead. Next time.......

[Lynn210]

Dumb computer!!

The window asking for HP Scanning disk said insert in D drive or click ok to pick a different location.. then froze up.. I put the disk in E drive .. did not like it there so I had to remove the XP disk and put it in the D drive then it unfroze and moved on.. It will prob ask for the installation disk again soon but it has not yet.

It was smart enough to know about the scanner but it didn't even know about the second drive

[edifyguy]

This is curious.. it is asking for the disk that says
"HP Scanning Software"

That did not come with this computer

The HP scanner is part of an ALL IN ONE I bought later

The disk is totally unrelated to Dell or to Windows

I will put the disk in and see what happens

Yes, that's because it wants to replace any and all drivers that didn't come from Micro$oft, and it recognizes that as a 3rd-party driver (which it is) .......so it should be OK.

If it comes to it, you can likely skip it, as it should already be in place.

[edifyguy]

Dumb computer!!

The window asking for HP Scanning disk said insert in D drive or click ok to pick a different location.. then froze up.. I put the disk in E drive .. did not like it there so I had to remove the XP disk and put it in the D drive then it unfroze and moved on.. It will prob ask for the installation disk again soon but it has not yet.

It was smart enough to know about the scanner but it didn't even know about the second drive

Haha, well, it's not that it doesn't KNOW about the second drive, but rather that the way it's performing addressing right now it may not be able to access it. Setup uses a rather strange way of accessing CD drives to avoid the hassle of following changing drive letters around.

It does sound like you're getting somewhere, though!

[Lynn210]

Got another not so friendly warning

says

Software Installation

(red circle with white x in middle) has not passed Windows Logo
testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP.

This software will not be installed. Contact your system administrator

------------

So it looks like some unnamed or unknown software is not going to be installed.

Its finalizing the install now.. almost finished I think

[edifyguy]

So it looks like some unnamed or unknown software is not going to be installed.

.....Probably a good thing, considering. 

If need be, we can add most anything we need to back in later.