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post #1 of 6
8/6/04 at 3:33pm
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After I formatted/reinstalled windows, Viruses have been poping up each system reboot. The main one seems to be ati2vid.exe which has been infected by a virus called New Poly 32.

Also first adaware sweep detected 228files which were quarantined but more are poping up each sweep. I downloaded a anti virus called F-Prot which found 96 infected files as well. Each time I install ATI drivers it seems that random search engines/pop up windows are installed as well.

It seems like theres a floodgate open through to my laptop ever since I reinstalled. Any suggestions? Should I format again?






P.S. Some things too add. When laptop boots up theres a windows prompt screen that tells me to choose between 2 windows xp home, but only 1 of them works.
There's also 41 running Processes on windows bootup, even though I've only reinstalled the Dell Drivers CD, Mcafee, and some tweaks(Fangui, Omega, ATI 4.7 drivers)
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post #2 of 6
8/6/04 at 7:18pm
How about a firewall and trying other antivirus software...

Sygate and Avast! are great programs.
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post #3 of 6
8/6/04 at 7:19pm
Oh -- and McAfee can be a bi*** on resources.
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post #4 of 6
8/10/04 at 1:42am
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Quick Update. Reformatted again this time putting on a Firewall / Zone Alarm, Ad aware. There's less viruses and those that get through are removed by Norton.

However a system error has occured twice. The msg is something to the extend of (Generic Host 32 has failed and windows must restart) Then a timer count down pops up saying the RPC protocol must restart and windows reboots. Is this a virus or some kind of error.
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post #5 of 6
8/10/04 at 1:59am
my question is wtf are you downloading?? My guess would be that the error you are seeing is a virus also. You said you reformatted and you have virus' again already??? a program that you install must have something in it that you don't know about. do another reformat and install norton and the firewall first, update norton to the fullest and then install programs (don't even install the drivers wait till norton is updated. Then if there is anything in the programs you install norton will find it.
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post #6 of 6
8/10/04 at 2:09am
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See i don't have norton on disk. Just downloaded the trial version from download.com. Same as some of the drivers/programs, but I think I'll put them on a CD and do another clean install soon.

The system error that forces reboots doesn't happen all the time. Only when I try to end some of the programs with Taskmanager.
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