Inactive Can't even get to step 2 of 8-step process - TFC just hangs

[ItchyDog]

No joy yet...

Broni,
Downloaded the file again and burned two CDs (from same download, since it took about an hour) but can't boot from either one. I have a friend with another connection - will check with him, but again, will take a while.

Thanks for your help and patience.

 

[Broni]

Let me know...

 

[ItchyDog]

Broni,
Took my computer to a friend with lots of experience getting rid of these things, here's what he said: "Finally found the root cause, which was a rootkit buried in the system files. Dug it out with a tool, which opened me back up to digging everything else out. You had a lot of stuff in there. So, got it working and learned more about malware behavior. Irresistable to a true geek..........

However, given the number of trojans and backdoors I dug out, I can never be sure I got them all, especially the back doors. I would hate to give it back and find out that someone could get access down the road. So, SOP in this biz is to do the restore."

BTW, just to start looking, he loaded Linux from a USB - avoided the whole windows thing.

Again, thanks for your help!!!

 

[Broni]

You're welcome and thanks for posting back