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Windows Components and Personal Settings changed / deleted.

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Hiya!

Can ayone help me out here?

My Folder Options has disappeared from the Tools menu so I cannot access my Hidden files. The Run command button has disappeared from my Start menu. My Windows media player shortcut icon disappeared from my desktop and my browser homepage changed from Google to a porn website.

Background

I copied some files to a friend's machine using a USB flash drive and when I re-inserted it into my laptop I noticed a file named New Folder on the flash drive which kept replicating itself whenever I tried to delete it.

My laptop was not the same after that and I did a full system scan with Windows Live Onecare but found nothing. I uninstalled Onecare and installed & run AVG antivirus. This picked up several viruses including New Folder.exe, A trojan horse.

After purging the infected files, I could not access any of my hidden files, use the RUN command or change any registry entries as I now get a message saying I am not the Administrator.

I have read other threads of similar experiences but the solutions suggested cannot be applied in my case as the use of the Run command features very much as part of making the necessary changes.

Thank you for taking the patience to read this.
Apr 17 '07 #1
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FFR my friend... FFR....

Fdisk

Format

Restore (do a new load)
Apr 18 '07 #2
Ayoson
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Thanks. I was hoping to avoid that. Is there a fix that won't involve me losing all my data? I'm taking it that reformatting will wipe my hard disk clean? Sorry, I'm a novice in this area... Cheers!
Apr 19 '07 #3

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