SpiritX Volunteer Moderator. Hi, When you use the recovery that will remove everything on the drive. Follow the procedure setup by your system maker as each maker has there own methods.
Check the System Maker's Site, their on-line documentation, and ask in their forums if any. If you have the Windows 7 DVD's you can do this however be sure to totally backup your data off the drive and you will need to reinstall your programs. If you do not have Windows 7 Disks you can buy them from your system maker cheap.
If you do not care about existing programs then you can do a complete fresh install - just select the format options which wipes the entire disk this erases all data as well. Then when you click okay it goes to your typical Internet file not found page.
The url is res: something. If you try to type in a web page, it doesn't work. If you try to change the homepage, which has been changed to that res: url, that doesn't work.
I talked to the guys at best buy and they said I probably need to reformat my hard drive. They can do it, but I'd rather do it myself and save the money.
At this point to I reformat my hard drive? I do understand that it will erase everything on my computer and I will not get anything back. This is fine, as I don't have any files on here. How do I reformat my hard drive? I have all the cd's my computer came with. I am running an ME with an XP update. I bought it a few months before XP was released.
Why you should reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows after your computer is infected with a virus For many virus , worm, or Trojan computer infections, the UITS Support Center or University Information Security Office UISO will instruct you to reformat your hard drive erase Windows and reinstall Windows from scratch, even if your antivirus program or other antiviral tools can remove the virus or delete the infection. Following are examples: W JI mm W WON W AJ mm PWSteal.
Reoxtan The first two examples actively open a backdoor, through which other malicious programs can be loaded. In all these sample cases, removing the infection the virus still leaves problems: In the cases of W JI mm and W Due to the complexity of this process and the knowledge and resources required to implement something like it, the mechanism appears to be out of the reach of most advanced threat groups in the world except the Equation group. Stuxnet was radically ambitious and sophisticated, capable of penetrating air-gapped networks, but Kaspersky Lab said the Equation group had access to those zero-days even before they were used in Stuxnet and Flame.
The Equation Group's Fanny can map air-gapped networks and allow "attackers to pass data back and forth from air-gapped networks. The researchers added that attackers infect their victims by methods such as physical media like CD-ROMs, USB sticks and exploits, web-based exploits, and Fanny self-replicating worm code.
Another interesting attack targeted Firefox 17 that was being used as a Tor browser; it used an unknown exploit. Kaspersky Lab gave an example of attacks that could be delivered via Java exploits to advertisements on popular Middle East websites as well as by visiting specific Islamic jihadist discussion forums; a PHP script, which was designed to work as part of the commercial forum platform vBulletin, exploited only forum visitors who were logged in; additionally those authenticated users had to come from specific IP address ranges.
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