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Want to zero format HD, reinstall windows 7 to ensure virus is gone
I have been trying to rid my wife's laptop of a Trojan rootkit called Trojan:DOS/Alureon.e. This thing just won't go away no matter what I have tried. It keeps popping up and getting captured by my virus software (Windows Security Essentials) but that software can't remove it. I've tried a bunch of other stuff to get rid of it to no avail.
I tried to do a recovery from my Lenovo recovery partition. That failed and left me with a blinking cursor at boot. I've since reinstalled Windows but ended up with three partitions somehow (one is the old recover partition, not sure what the other one is but it might be another copy of the OS?).
Anyway, I am totally sick of wasting time so I want to do a wipe of the HD and then install Win 7 again. I have flash drive that is executable and has my Win 7 Ultimate installation CD copied to it. It was an upgrade disk but I am pretty sure it will work to install from scratch. What is the best way to go about doing this to rid myself of this rootkit? Clearly the standard reinstall from my installation disk didn't do the job.
My thinking is zero format the drive, then install Win 7 from the flash drive. That would get me the cleanest possible setup, correct? Anything else I should know? Thx!