Hello, thanks for dropping by to help me, I'll try and keep it as simple and as informative as I can.
I only have my 3yr old laptop as a system (so I can't rely on secondary systems to fetch me files I might need). I do not need my laptop for any important business related issues, as such formatting is pretty much an option I opt for very oftenly. I also have a 16Gig INTENSO pendrive (Which I really ain't planning on throwing away since it cost me quite a few bucks to get) which I have used to restore the 3 main drivers I can't really go without: Network, Graphics and Audio. Specially network, since everything else can be fetched via the internet.
I have a conficker virus on my system, if I guessed correctly based on some website I checked to see which pictures load and which don't. (2 pictures, one on each side of the top row of this particular website didn't load, indicating I was infected with conficker.) The virus itself is very annoying disabling various websites from loading, and messing around with my head in general, knowing it's present.
What I want to do
Give the laptop a clean format.
Get rid of all the viruses on both the laptop and the pendrive.
What's happening
I tried some guides to attempt to remove the virus from my computer, but the virus originates from the pendrive, so killing the soldiers but not the king ain't really getting me anywhere in this particular battle =/
I formatted the pendrive and it gave me a "Success" through WinXP, having a lot of data (my poor music collection :'<) being wiped, and yet the bloody virus is still present there. It appears to be an autorun.inf, avast continuously locks it out, but continuously fails at deleting it for some reason.
What I have done
Quite a few things actually. I tried too many guides reading existing posts on this or maybe other forums (Fairly positive it was this forum), but I decided to give in and post my own thread, since at this point I really need someone guiding me step by step. Tell me what to do and how to provide you with any data that might be helpful and I'll do it asap.
Thank you very much for reading, and helping
I only have my 3yr old laptop as a system (so I can't rely on secondary systems to fetch me files I might need). I do not need my laptop for any important business related issues, as such formatting is pretty much an option I opt for very oftenly. I also have a 16Gig INTENSO pendrive (Which I really ain't planning on throwing away since it cost me quite a few bucks to get) which I have used to restore the 3 main drivers I can't really go without: Network, Graphics and Audio. Specially network, since everything else can be fetched via the internet.
I have a conficker virus on my system, if I guessed correctly based on some website I checked to see which pictures load and which don't. (2 pictures, one on each side of the top row of this particular website didn't load, indicating I was infected with conficker.) The virus itself is very annoying disabling various websites from loading, and messing around with my head in general, knowing it's present.
What I want to do
Give the laptop a clean format.
Get rid of all the viruses on both the laptop and the pendrive.
What's happening
I tried some guides to attempt to remove the virus from my computer, but the virus originates from the pendrive, so killing the soldiers but not the king ain't really getting me anywhere in this particular battle =/
I formatted the pendrive and it gave me a "Success" through WinXP, having a lot of data (my poor music collection :'<) being wiped, and yet the bloody virus is still present there. It appears to be an autorun.inf, avast continuously locks it out, but continuously fails at deleting it for some reason.
What I have done
Quite a few things actually. I tried too many guides reading existing posts on this or maybe other forums (Fairly positive it was this forum), but I decided to give in and post my own thread, since at this point I really need someone guiding me step by step. Tell me what to do and how to provide you with any data that might be helpful and I'll do it asap.
Thank you very much for reading, and helping