RobbyTT

only place I know to turn.)

A friend of my roomate was using AIM on my roomates computer and downloaded a mpg file that was called "Christmas Time" Then, when it finished downloading the computer froze and when he restarted it gave a message of "BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT A BOOK DISK, blah blah."

Anyways, I was the idiot that let my roomate run his hard drive as a secondary master on my machine to extract his documents - at this point we did not know it was a virus. Anyways, now my computer has it...

Question is, what is this virus and is there a way for me to extract it without re-formating my computer? This way I wouldn't loose anything.

However, I do have access to everything including bookmarks, files, mp3s etc but can't find a way to get my outlook files...Old school there used to be a file called outlook.pst or something like that but my search comes up empty on that.

I'm running XP professional and office XP. Thanks for any help...my roomate is a fat, fat, man!

EighTT

If you don't have a good anti-virus program, I'd buy one and update it frequently. I recommend Norton Anti-Virus, and I update mine almost daily.

I'd probably call Symantec, the makers of Norton AV. Tell a technical support person what happened and see if they can help you. Of course, you'll probably have to buy their product, but it's not very expensive.

Below is a link to their website. I'll let you hunt around and try to figure out who to call.<ul><li><a href="http://www.symantec.com/">Symantec</a></li></ul>

TTP

My guess is a boot sector virus since it infected your system without running the mpeg trojan program.

In order to boot from CDROM, you may need to go into the system bios and set the boot order to CDROM first on the boot hierarchy.

RobbyTT

how can I save my emails and contacts? I'm going to eventually wipe out the whole drive, repartition and then format. I knew a way in older outlook versions to do this without opening up the program but I can't get it now.

Sweet TT

I never was much of a believer in anti-virus software, UNTIL it happened to me! I bought Norton's software and discovered a SH*T load of corrupt files. Wouldn't be without it now.

SWEET TT
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TTP

extension. Scan those files rigorously and then move them to a diskette or another hard drive. You can import back into a new Outlook if you have those files. If you have multiple email identities, there will be duplicates. Make sure you store them in individual sub-directories.

EighTT

I agree. Norton AV is very good. I can't tell you how many viruses it has intercepted.