Doubleclick Produces odd message

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DirtyWater

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Recently i allowed my younger brother to use my desktop computer to watch streaming movies. Ever since then i have had a bit of trouble with it, in various forms. But mainly this:
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Every time i doubleclick to access my external HDD, it gives me this message. I've never heard of this happening to anyone before and can only assume it's down to something that happened when he was on it. I tried system restore but the same thing happens.

I use NOD32 Smart Security and after scanning it found about 18 objects and removed them and the other things that were happening like being redirected to other websites have stopped.

How can i restore the doubleclick action to just access the drive and not try to access this Recycler folder thing?

Any ideas or a solution very much appreciated and thank you for any suggestions.
 
It is a virus which installs itself as the autorun program of the drive. I had a similiar problem, but it was "boot.com".
I did the following method. I think this would work for you too.

Open a cmd prompt. Start > Run... [type in] cmd > Ok
At the prompt, enter the following commands:

attrib -h -r -s C:\Autorun.inf

del C:\Autorun.inf

attrib -h -r -s D:\Autorun.inf

del D:\Autorun.inf


etc.


(do this for every drive letter (C: D: E: etc) and do NOT open any drives with
Explorer until you're completed)
 
sshaggy said:
It is a virus which installs itself as the autorun program of the drive. I had a similiar problem, but it was "boot.com".
I did the following method. I think this would work for you too.

Open a cmd prompt. Start > Run... [type in] cmd > Ok
At the prompt, enter the following commands:

attrib -h -r -s C:\Autorun.inf

del C:\Autorun.inf

attrib -h -r -s D:\Autorun.inf

del D:\Autorun.inf



etc.


(do this for every drive letter (C: D: E: etc) and do NOT open any drives with
Explorer until you're completed)
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Wait...he shouldn't delete C: if that's his primary HD, should he?
 
sshaggy said:
It is a virus which installs itself as the autorun program of the drive. I had a similiar problem, but it was "boot.com".
I did the following method. I think this would work for you too.

Open a cmd prompt. Start > Run... [type in] cmd > Ok
At the prompt, enter the following commands:

attrib -h -r -s C:\Autorun.inf

del C:\Autorun.inf

attrib -h -r -s D:\Autorun.inf

del D:\Autorun.inf


etc.


(do this for every drive letter (C: D: E: etc) and do NOT open any drives with
Explorer until you're completed)
Click to expand...


Unless it hides itself in a more obscure location, which is probably does. Back up data, wipe and reload is the best method to be sure.
 
Wiping everything might be a bit extreme although it is likely that there's more than just the autorun stuff on there now.

Doing a search for autorun on the drives would be an easy way to find them as well.
 
Washrag said:
Wait...he shouldn't delete C: if that's his primary HD, should he?
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I was telling to delete only the autorun file, ie, c:\autorun.inf which is displaying these messages.
It has attributes of hidden, system and read only .

"attrib -h -r -s C:\Autorun.inf" will remove the attributes and then it can be deleted.
Its a safe process, coz i have tried it myself.
 
Ok guys, thanks a lot for the responses by the way. In regards to the ''attrib -h -r -s C:\Autorun.inf'' entry in the cmd interface, it returns a ''File not found - C:\Autorun.inf'' and i repeated it for each drive letter.

presumably it's already been deleted, or maybe something was attached to it and the AV deleted both.

I have managed to delete the stubborn folders that weren't deletable before by using unlocker and kill process and they've not returned and the space they occupied on the drive has been dissolved so (I hope) they're gone.

One thing remains to fix really, the problem of the doubleclick returning the message from my first post....i've scanned and rescanned with newest NOD32 and all problem files are gone.

All i can think of is the virus/whatever altered the target of the doubleclick action away from exploring the drive to some other file on the drive that's been removed.

Any way that i can kind of...reset the doubleclick action to explore the drive contents normally again...might aswell give that a go. Tried just about everything else i can think of, i'm not too bright when it comes to computers.

and i really appreciate your help guys, you've got me this far so thanks.
 
which is probably does. Back up data, wipe and reload is the best method to be sure.
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and what if the virus is on the data hes backing up or if it ain't even a virus. I think the best thing to do is to put all of your data on a seperate drive. "BACK IT UP" Put the drive in another computer and scan it with an antivirus program (NOD32 or Trend Micros not norton) and see what happens.
 
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