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cafshere · #1 September 29th, 2003, 10:16 PM

When i view the dir of c: drive in dos my drive name has been altered but not by myself, pc main is renamed to pc mein$ and all my windows files that are there also have $ in place of some letters, does anyone know what might be causing this as I am coming up blank and it may well be something that ties in with my previous post, please help if you can

renegade600 · #2 September 29th, 2003, 10:26 PM

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When i view the dir of c: drive in dos my drive name has been altered but not by myself, pc main is renamed to pc mein$ and all my windows files that are there also have $ in place of some letters, does anyone know what might be causing this as I am coming up blank and it may well be something that ties in with my previous post, please help if you can

Run your virus scan with the latest definitions. If you do not have one try the free online one at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

cafshere · #3 September 29th, 2003, 10:32 PM

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Run your virus scan with the latest definitions. If you do not have one try the free online one at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Hi can't boot up only in to dos mode, i have tried running virus scanners through but there aren't to many around that run in dos mode thanks for taking the time to reply it is much appreciated...

renegade600 · #4 September 29th, 2003, 10:41 PM

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Hi can't boot up only in to dos mode, i have tried running virus scanners through but there aren't to many around that run in dos mode thanks for taking the time to reply it is much appreciated...

What virus scan is on the computer you are currently using. You may be able to create emergency disks and use it to scan your computer.

Also Nortons and, I think, McAfees, if you have their cd, you should be able to stick it into the cd, power up the computer and scan your computer. It will not have the latest definitions but maybe it will solve your problem.

30111987 · #5 September 29th, 2003, 10:49 PM

yes something defanity corrupted, did you open any attachments, install new software or anything similar recently?

cafshere · #6 September 29th, 2003, 11:26 PM

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yes something defanity corrupted, did you open any attachments, install new software or anything similar recently?

currently there isn't anything on the computer as i just reformatted my harddrive and i think thats why i haven't been able to find a virus up to now as my programs are a bit dated, thanks though its gotta be worth a try.....*S*

30111987 · #7 September 30th, 2003, 08:24 AM

if you can it might be worth formatting everything again, i'm not sure though

cafshere · #8 September 30th, 2003, 10:01 AM

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if you can it might be worth formatting everything again, i'm not sure though

I have tried that but i keep getting the same message from windows boot disk that it doesn't have valid partitions but i know i have made them, could it be a memory resident virus and if so is there a way to get rid of it? thanks for helping it really has me baffled.

30111987 · #9 September 30th, 2003, 04:29 PM

ah it's proberly do do with your partitions, what software did u use?

cafshere · #10 October 1st, 2003, 12:12 AM

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ah it's proberly do do with your partitions, what software did u use?

I used partition magic is that good or not good?