I’ve tried many different live CDs, including WIndows preboot environment, Ubuntu, PC-Linux, and several others, and none of them “see” the hard drive. I’m sure I’m missing knowledge about how this works. I want to remove a keylogger folder from an infected hard drive with XP. If I try to remove it from within Windows (even when the HDD is a slave) the OS just hangs.
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I have heared that formatting reduces the life of harddisk. Let us suppose I have a virus on my harddisk or my windows is curropted. I want to erase all data from my harddisk including hiddden folder and files like System Volume Information without formatting it. So that I can install windows what should I do? I have NTFS volume. Do u know any live CD linux which supports NTFS filesysystem? I think it will help me to erase data from my HDD.
So when i start my computer it brings up the log-on screen and i type in my password and it hangs saying welcome with that spinning blue circle thing next to it and then brings up the documents folder with nothing else but empty blackness. Somewhere I saw an article saying it was a registry error probably caused by a virus and that an edit of this would fix it (cant remember the path). So i tried it by doing something like finding an entry with the value ‘userinit.exe’ (no quotes, and yes i meant to put that comma there) and I restarted my computer and it came up and said it couldn’t boot, ran diagnostics or something and obviously fixed the error. But my main problem remains. explorer.exe does run, but it is not the desktop, it is the my documents folder. It may be running the wrong explorer.exe. These processes are, however, running whilst i am running task manager – ‘csrss.exe’, ‘dwm.exe’, ‘taskeng.exe’, ‘taskmgr.exe’ (obviously while I’m running task manager), and ‘winlogon.exe’. I am pretty sure that this is a virus because on one of my accounts, it brings up a window asking for admin privileges to run a Windows Update file by an unidentified publisher. of course i hit no and then my AVG Free Antivirus asks if i want to move it to my virus vault. if i hit yes, windows will come up with an error message for this file saying it isnt there, so i put it back. Its in a folder like ‘C:UsersAppDataLocalWindows-UpdateKBxxxxxx.exe’ (where the x’s represent numbers). I have made a new account and it took about 2 minutes to create my desktop, then didnt apply the usual transparent theme, but a windows 9x type theme until i hit File, New Task, and typed explorer.exe. then it loaded the desktop. I run Vista Home Premium and i believe i had the same problem on my old pc running XP home premium, but only on one profile. I know that he easiest alternative is a reinstall, but i would like to avoid this if at all possible. I hope that i havent given to much info. Remember that i will award 10 points to the best answer. Also I am considering switching to using a portable version of Linux, if anyone could point me in the direction of a working guide to install Linux on a cd with a live file system, or a usb hard drive, i MAY award 10 points if i do not get a working reply for my original question.
ty for the help, i knew i should have added that, i have done multiple scans with AVG and Spybot S&D, but thanks so much for your help
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my computer recently crashed because a virus deleted my winlogon.exe from the system32 folder. I was able to fix the problem by using a linux live cd. I went to the i386 folder and copied and pasted a copy of winlogon.exe back to the system32 folder and restarted the computer and it worked. After an hour or so I realized the virus was still there and it restarted my computer unexpectadly. When I turned it back on it went to the black & white screen sorry for the inconvenience and gave me options to go into safe mode (didnt work) and when I pressed enter it restarts and goes back the sorry for the inconvenience page. When I booted the linux live cd, I checked the system32 folder and the winlogon.exe was still there. It has to be something else but i dont know what. Before when the winlogon.exe was missing it would go the loading screen then restart but now it goes to the sorry for the inconvenience page and restarts when i press enter.
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ok i need some help. i found a guide but i get confused at a part. it had me make a folder in home folder called live and inside that i have the folders edit,mnt,extra-cd,squashfs and the ubuntu iso. i have all the files extracted. and also i have some stuff mounted. i have the linux iso mounted and the squashfs. what thing am i suppose to edit and change. the guide im using is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization#How%20to%20Customize%20the%20Ubuntu%20Desktop%20CD
o and i dont want remastry i enjoy codes
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