hi everybody!!!

i'm in need of some serious help here  

i've got this virus (edlm.exe if u wanna Google it), which my anti virus program never fixed for me. so i read in this forum that you have to try and rename its 3 FILES. so i did that, and restarted.  But after logging in to my USER account on windows XP as usual and my desktop loads, after a few seconds i get a black screen  

now what i'm really asking for is how to access MS DOS without having to log in to windows??  :-?  i want to access DOS to rename the virus files back to their original state.

PLEASE HELP   :-/in XP there is no way to BOOT into MS-DOS.
however, if XP is not installed in a NTFS partition you can try booting the machine with a boot disk for win95 or win98abz....  I believe that you are infected with a trojan ....not a virus and that is PROBABLY why your AV didnt catch it .........
I would be inclined to do this ....... D/L Ewido V3.5      http://www.filehippo.com/download_ewido/    .... once installed , get the latest updates ...and then ..........Reboot into Safe mode , and run Ewido ...it should find and remove the trojan ........

let us know how you make out .

dl65  ok i managed to start windows in safe mode during those 20 seconds hehehe

so now i did a system restore, but the trojan is still in its original state.

i'm downloading Ewido rite now (thanks dl65  ).... i have Ad-Aware... shouldnt THAT have removed the trojan:-?

thanks again  abz  ....... Several things , First Ad-Aware is not designed to remove trojans .
Second , Never use System restore to attempt to remove trojans or viruses ....all that happens is the infection is in the restore files and everything just comes back ......
If you suspect you have either a trojan or a virus ...the first thing to do is turn off the system restore feature on all drives ....... and then go into safe mode and run your scans .......  Then once the system is clean ...it's safe to turn system restore back on .

dl65  you misunderstood me....

I did the system restore to go back to the original state of the virus, before i tried to fix it and ended up making it even worse.  

I'm formatting my pc now anyway... cant seem to get rid of this trojan (i wanted to FORMAT anyway.... but i go crazy thinking about all the backups i gotta do hehehe   )

I tried loads of stuff that i read on the internet about it but it always results in that black screen after loggin in to window  :-/

thanks anyway for your help... much appreciated