04-27-2012, 08:50 AM
Hello
I bought a Dell N4050 laptop yesterday and while installing various kind of software I
somehow let a Trojan or some virus in my laptop
Now what that virus did was that when i inserted my pen drive it sent some folders and files
into my pen drive which wasn't removable and pretty annoying. So i though I'd take care of
it by installing new OS 7! then suddenly I realized there was a "removable device" showing
in my computer which clearly wasn't mine! i checked it properties and realized its the
Trojan/virus's doing. so i left it like that and continued installing my new OS 7 from a USB
stick.
now what happened was at the last stage where my computer was suppose to start with win 7 it
showed me a blue screen and restarted. the msg on the blue screen said there was some error
or bla bla and that i need to update my bios. but i checked i have the latest bios version.
so i tried to install win 7 again but same thing happened. tried again but this time i
clicked on repair and somhow ended up in my computer. there i saw that even though i
formated the C drice that removeable device is still there! from the look of it i thought
maybe it has its existance in another drive and since i didnt have any data worth protecting
i decided to break my partition. so i broke my partition and made only one drive and
formatted it and went to my computer through win 7 installation and still saw that removable
device icon! now i was sure that remove device is doing something to stop me from not being
able to install my win 7
that's my situation! now what i want to know is how do i remove that removable device? i
mean where is its existence still stored?! i am a new laptop user but i have been using a pc
for a long time and i know for a fact that if u do a new partition everything in ur computer
is gone! but yet that virus thing is still standing!
I did some research for this topic and found that many others has faced this problem with no
real solution! I want you to know before u answer that now i don't have any operating system
in my laptop and i formated the disk with win 7 and DOS. and i am sure it is not my memory
stick or anything. one of buddy told me dell laptops has some feature that lets it restore
infor/system files into another place or something but he doesn't know the details!
can someone please help me with it?
I bought a Dell N4050 laptop yesterday and while installing various kind of software I
somehow let a Trojan or some virus in my laptop
Now what that virus did was that when i inserted my pen drive it sent some folders and files
into my pen drive which wasn't removable and pretty annoying. So i though I'd take care of
it by installing new OS 7! then suddenly I realized there was a "removable device" showing
in my computer which clearly wasn't mine! i checked it properties and realized its the
Trojan/virus's doing. so i left it like that and continued installing my new OS 7 from a USB
stick.
now what happened was at the last stage where my computer was suppose to start with win 7 it
showed me a blue screen and restarted. the msg on the blue screen said there was some error
or bla bla and that i need to update my bios. but i checked i have the latest bios version.
so i tried to install win 7 again but same thing happened. tried again but this time i
clicked on repair and somhow ended up in my computer. there i saw that even though i
formated the C drice that removeable device is still there! from the look of it i thought
maybe it has its existance in another drive and since i didnt have any data worth protecting
i decided to break my partition. so i broke my partition and made only one drive and
formatted it and went to my computer through win 7 installation and still saw that removable
device icon! now i was sure that remove device is doing something to stop me from not being
able to install my win 7
that's my situation! now what i want to know is how do i remove that removable device? i
mean where is its existence still stored?! i am a new laptop user but i have been using a pc
for a long time and i know for a fact that if u do a new partition everything in ur computer
is gone! but yet that virus thing is still standing!
I did some research for this topic and found that many others has faced this problem with no
real solution! I want you to know before u answer that now i don't have any operating system
in my laptop and i formated the disk with win 7 and DOS. and i am sure it is not my memory
stick or anything. one of buddy told me dell laptops has some feature that lets it restore
infor/system files into another place or something but he doesn't know the details!
can someone please help me with it?