Hi,

I've been trying to fix one of my mate's laptop that is full of viruses. When i used the PC-Cillin antivirus to scan the hard disk, about 100 viruses were found and then i went to scan again using the microsoft antispyware, about 200 were found. I was really shocked when looking at the number. Never in my life have i seen something like this. Also, from the microsoft antispyware, i noticed that it says there are about 50 or 60 registry infected. I believe they have got into the registry. Then, i tried to remove the antivirus by following the procedure found from other website. That is to turn off the system restore and scan it again. That didn't work because it kept on coming back and appeared in the startup in the msconfig window.

I was wondering if there is really any other way apart from reformating the whole hard drive.

Thank you very much and LOOK forward to hearing from you.I would reformat that bad boy right away! You might back up the data files and scan them separately before putting them back afterward.

Of course I would put Linux on there to avoid this kind of scenario. You know, an ounce of prevention.....

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I was wondering if there is really any other way apart from reformating the whole hard drive.

I've been trying to fix one of my mate's laptop that is full of viruses. When i used the PC-Cillin antivirus to scan the hard disk, about 100 viruses were found and then i went to scan again using the microsoft antispyware, about 200 were found. I was really shocked when looking at the number. Never in my life have i seen something like this. Also, from the microsoft antispyware, i noticed that it says there are about 50 or 60 registry infected.