Hello, I'm Acoyauh.
I had a virus infection that my Symantec could detect but not remove (warning screen showed it found Bloodhound.(...) but froze there). I installed Avast! and removed three viruses with a boot-time scan. It now scans clean with both tools.
I had trouble for a while accessing my HDD until I removed all autorun.* files -there were plenty all over.
My problem now is that I cannot activate the View All Files and Folders option; I assume I still have a bug but just can't figure out how to find it.
I ran a HJT scan and I'm attaching it here. Do I need anything else? Can you please help here?
It's an HP Laptop (Lots of HP sw in it) with Windows XP Professional, all updates on.

Attached Files

hijackthis080407.log (10.5 KB, 24 views)

1. Click Start -> Run
2. Type regedit and click Ok.
3. Find the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advan ced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
4. Look at the “CheckedValue” key… This should be a DWORD key. If it isn’t, delete the key.
5. Create a new key called “CheckedValue” as a DWORD (hexadecimal) with a value of 1.
6. The “Show hidden files & folders” check box should now work normally
7. Also change in NOHIDDEN change value to 1
8. In SHOWALL change value to 0
9. Re-check the folder options
10. now change the values to the same
NOHIDDEN to 2
SHOWALL to 1

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It works now, thanks!
I now can see hidden files called sqmdataxx.sqm & sqmnooptxx.sqm which I don't think were there before... but that's just details.
All seems ok now. I really appreciate such quick and effective help.