Help to retrieve notepad

A virus or something has had it!

[peewhy]

I recently had a virus which I thought was dealt with.

Today my iexplore.exe went but I replaced it and now I've found that my 'view source' won't work!

It says it can't find note pad.

When I go into Accessories and click on note pad it asks which drive I want to clean?

Whatever it is, it's nasty!

Can anyone help the the retrieval of notpad and any other suggestions. :)

Thanks

[moltar]

Some viruses are very tricky. They will alter your anti-virus program, so that it tells you that there are no viruses regarding if there are any or not.

I recommend you to back up all your important documents, files, settings, etc... Preferably on to another drive.

Format the drive where you have an installation of Windows.

Do a fresh install of Windows.

Right after you did the fresh install, get an anti-virus software of some kind. And scan *all* your drives.

Note in the last step it's important to do it *right away*. Make sure you do not open any files you've backed up, nor run any programs that you've backed up, they might be infected.

[peewhy]

Thanks for that. I have AVG which supposedly cleared the infected files!

[Mike12345]

What veriant or type was the virus you had, you can get a fix for most virus. then you can replace damaged files safely. Its shorter thana full re-install.

[RoadRash]

Call Microsoft (800-936-5700), Tell them you have a virus that needs to be delt with. Free support for virus related issues :)

(only good for Win 98 / Me / XP in a home environment)

[peewhy]

Mike12345

It looks like js/fortnight or bugbear.

[Mike12345]

Go get a fix: h*tp://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail]

then remove AVG and re-install, and any other software that is missing can be safely replaced.(providing you've correctly identified the virus) AFAIK anyway, ive done it a few times on machines across our network, seems to solve the problem easier than a re-install.

Re-loading a few hundred software packages onto a machine can be a a huge time consumer.

[peewhy]

Many thanks Mike I'll give it a shot.

Peter