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joe5

Give it an other go first with this app:

http://www.jrtwine.com/Products/DelFXPFiles/index.htm

SultanGris

Originally Posted by willybach

im actually thinking of formatting the drive since its not on the same hard drive as my OS, however the hard drive it is on is a System disk and wont allow me to format it...erm...so how do i do that then? im guessing it doesnt allow me to do it because there's some important stuff hidden on there somewhere, though i cant seem it in windows, but can i format it anyway? possibly from a boot disk floppy, Fdisk?

well, if you have fat file system, you can use windows 98 boot disk, if you have ntfs file system, you should be able to use some sort of ntfs boot disk, however i personally have no experience with ntfs boot disks, so i cant tell you how to do it. im sure someone will know.

willybach

Originally Posted by SultanGris

well, if you have fat file system, you can use windows 98 boot disk, if you have ntfs file system, you should be able to use some sort of ntfs boot disk, however i personally have no experience with ntfs boot disks, so i cant tell you how to do it. im sure someone will know.

thanks, ive converted my drives to ntfs, but im not sure if the XP boot disk has progs like FDISK, and besides using the CD doesnt seem to allow me to reformat the drive saying that its stores vital files on that drive and cant erase them...anyway, im gonna try joe's prog first, then its wipe time, ive had enough of those four damn pesky files, grrrrrr.

willybach

tried the free version of that program, but it didnt work, came up with the same message about not being able to read the file or disk due to syntax error. i think im going to have to fomat the drive, im sure those files are malware of some shape or form, ive started having a few problems with XP ever since they appeared.

joe5

Maybe it is a good idea to try to remove it , if there is indeed malware causing the prob.

For that please follow the instructions in the "Prework" link below.

willybach

Hi ive just done all the prework tasks, and actually it did find one infection...ive attached the HijackThis file, would appreciate any feedback on it...thanks

joe5

Youre hjt log looks clean , but can you also post the ewido log?

And i see that you have FreeRAM XP Pro running. I personaly am not a fan of apps like that , they just use more system resources and sometimes even cause system stability problems.

Also can you post the file names and paths of the files you can't delete? Maybe that tells something about it.