Should i flash my bios to get rid of infection

Hi there
1) DISCONNECT MACHINE FRON NET AND LAN

1) scan the DATA FILES for infection - Disk by disk and copy OK data to brand new CD / DVD -R. After copy when each disk is full FINALIZE it this will stop any further writes to the CD / DVD so clean files won't get infected.

2) once you are happy you have a clean computer with clean HDD's you can then copy your data from the CD's / DVD's you've just made to HD.

3) Now you can re-connect to LAN and net - but scan your machine regularly.

You shouldn't have to "trash" most of your old data files.

(Actually the idea of sending back a Tax return to the tax authorities with a virus in it sounds very appealing - but unless the thought of doing serious jail time doesn't bother you - don't do it).

Cheers
jimbo

thanks Jimbo

i feel better knowing that i might be able to get my data off. I will wait until we work out what it is because scans are not locating anything at all. I just know by the common behaviour across 3 generation of microsoft computers.

I did think just hang onto the harddrive and if i get auditored by the tax office i just say here we go have this but there is a virus on the drive - lol

thanks for the advice

Hello,
Do you have a second computer somewhere? If so, secure that computer with HIPS (you can get excellent HIPS from Comodo's IS Suite), you can also use Returnil to fortify your computer, then:
1. Disable autorun on your computer
2. unplug turn all the drives from the infected computer into external drives
3. Plug them into the clean computer, scan them all with your AV, then scan them again with various online scanners. If you need a list of those, let me know.

If the scans do not show any infection, enable autorun, replug those drives and let the HIPS pick out the offenders. Hope it helps and sorry if it confuses you.

I don't think so! Repartitioning the hard disk may help?

thank yes the passwords have been changed.

I have 3 computers infected the seven one - newest 2-3 months old, my old laptop with vista on it very infected and an xp desktop which is bsod in the middle of reinstallation it could be hardware as the machine is 5 years old can't run checks on the system at the moment as can't burn the disks.

I am now in wait mode i will do nothing until i hear back from beeping

turning off auto run doesn't work. when you open files on the disk it will infect the computer. It will reactivate auto run so everything placed in the drive will auto run from that point.

It will be worked out

thanks for your help guys

Not that laptop it is turned off. The only one plugged in is the seven machine. It seems to be running ok but one doesn't know with what ever i have

cheers