Finally back!

zigzag3143 said:

Always helps to have a win 7 installed on a USB stick. 22 minutes to install.

Having multiple installations (plus each installation having a different A/V) for cross scanning is definitely handy.

The only downside to running an A/V from another install is that it won't boot scan or do a 'currently loaded in memory' scan.

77 objects? I would have scrapped that installation too


Do you know how you were infected?

hmm. So it was a drive by infection? What browser?

zigzag3143 said:

OK so I had first encounter with a boat load of the buggers. I was setting up a dual boot partition (clean installed) when lo and behold defender pops up and starts to run. Now I know defender doesnt do that so I just hit cancel. Unfortunately the cancel button also spawned more nasties.

Now Im at the point where I cant open task manager, I cant go to any AV web site, and its just launching more and more processes.

I finally had a brain storm. Boot from the other partition and run a virus scan from that partition to the infected one.

After deleting, and removing 77 objects I had a clean (clean) partition.

Not feeling comfortable I re-formatted anyway.. Total time to back online cleanly was about 2 hours.

Always helps to have a win 7 installed on a USB stick. 22 minutes to install.

So be careful


Ken

Wow, Ken. That certainly testifies to the worth of boot disks, boot sticks and images. I'm sure glad you were able to get it cleaned up.

BugMeister said:

yo zigzag - well done..!!

damned nasties, picking up on a spelling mistake an' all..

No kidding...Well done ZigZag!:)