Drive Error

[voyagerfan99]

I've been having an issue lately that is very annoying. A few weeks ago I realized I did not have Avast! installed. I had re-installed XP on my computer a few months before that and I guess it just slipped. Well needless to say, I installed Avast! and it found a virus in the system memory upon startup. It had to do a boot-time scan to take care of it. Well it marked some critical system processes (like system32) as being infected. That caused me to get this problem:

I have 3 hard drives in my system: C: D: and E:. C: is the main OS drive while I use D: and E: for system backup and storage. When I click on them in "my computer" to access them, I get this error:

And if I right click on the drive to go to open, it looks like this:

I then tried re-installing windows again, which took care of the issue with C: but D: and E:remained the same. I thought formatting would fix it. I didn't get that far because it stopped giving me the error message. I again installed Avast! and it again marked the system files as infected. It's a hassle to always select "Explore" or "Open" so I was hoping you might have some ideas about how to fix this.

I currently have these three system files in the virus chest:

At the moment, I have a 320GB external drive (not big enough) but I could borrow the 1TB drive from work, so if it comes to it I can back up everything and format all three drives.

 

[Aastii]

E still has the virus on by the sounds of it and after formats it keeps putting it back over to the other 2 drives.

i don't know what winsock or winsock 32 are, but the kernel file is part of the windows kernal, ie the part which links the operating system to the hardware, and that may be why you are seeing the dodgy text on your hard drive because it isn't getting the real information from it to the software.

Because of what the files are you can't really uninstall them, but you can't afford to keep them in either if it is messing your system around, bit of a strange one i am thinking