What to do, so viruses wouldn't come back

You've gotta repeat the scan till we come up clean. Just went thu this with another thread!

Safe Mode Full scan!

Mike

I have just done another Safe mode full scan, unfortunately, It found a lot of viruses/threats in the C:\System Volume Information. Check the log.


Now I am doing the scan again, hoping that it would be the last.

IF this is the scan where it doesn't find any viruses...What should I do next? Scan my Slave hard through Safe mode?

System Volume information is System restore so if all of C: except this was it we may have made it.

Yes slave drive next then any Flash drives.

Mike

Done.

I have also decided to completely re-install my PC and reformat it. Just so I make sure there are no viruses left and that the registry wouldn't cause problems after the repair. I hope this wouldn't effect the things you said I should do.

After all this work! Well now you are clean??

You can reinstall anytime!

But up to you!. I will help that why I am here!

Mike

I just reinstalled, installed the SP3 you gave me. Got a legal versions of uniblue RegistryBooster, DriverScanner and SpeedUpMyPC and now using them.

Thanks for everything, I will post if anything comes up.

Thanks mflynn for looking in on this and all the help and advice. Great work!

Last question....What anti-virus should I use to protect my PC and which version?

I want to keep further viruses away.

Avira by a wide margin!

Mike

Here are four very good ones: Kaspersky, ESET's NOD32, Avast, and Avira Antivir.

Here is a good breif overview of sound internet security by jbeard: http://www.tech-101.com/system-security/topic198.html

Where I disagree with the article is that instead of Sunbelt firewall I'd go with Online Armor instead. COMODO is a good choice as well just as long as you know how to teak it.

I am sure mflynn has great suggestions. Oops! He posted before I did!

Well if you are going to buy! Its a tie between Avira and Nod!

Mike

Another problem, not similar to this one.

If any of you are good in hardware...Please, check out this thread: http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?p=729079#post729079

Thank you in advance,

Freeman14.

She is cooked! When you get a bad enough short to (from the MB) to smell outside the case that is bad.

You can get smoke from the PSU and replace it and the Motherboard will still be OK.

Most don't have the good fortune to see it smoke the motherboard so spend time doing a lot of trouble shooting. Well you don't have too!

The HD should be alright but the RAM is likely gone!

Mike