I just spent the last 6.5 hours formatting & reinstalling everything because my system was so bogged down with viruses. I don't even think i got it all out...there seems to be a little partition that i can't get rid of

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I empathize with you there. I had to reformat a machine that I was using for development. It was a spyware program that kept replicating itself. Tried Spybot, Adaware and Spysweeper: they'd find it but whenever the computer restarted or sat for an extended period it would be right back.

On the new computers there are no "download our trial version" and strictly firefox.

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I use Windows XP SP2 and no viruses or Spyware or attacks yet. Have you tried SP2 yet if you do use XP jlknauff? People say it's so crap but I have not had 1 spyware or virus from using it because of the new security features in IE 6 for SP2. All my programs work as normal as well.

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Hummm... weird, and you can't delete it... one thing I would do is boot on a disquette that has the fdisk command on it and do this :

fdisk /mbr

This will rewrite the master boot record of your hard disk and eliminate viruses that infect the boot record... then maybe you will be able to get rid of this partition.

Sadly, I am running w2k - I actually have a 100% legit xp disk but can't find the serial I even used to have one of the enterprise xp disks that didn't require a serial but I have no clue where that went!

A was able to boot from the w2k instal disk and see the partition...who knows, maybe it was misreading something. I now have Norton AV & a firewall running. I'm even thinking of wearing a condom when I'm at the computer from now on I had well over 300 infected files!

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LOL.....

been there done that. If you have a genuine disc you can often get a serial number if you have a box somewhere with a sticker on it. You have to charm the pants off the MS telephone support worker though... hopefully you'll get a girl......

Some of the older versions of Norton (eg 2004) aren't so good. I'd recommend a Bitdefender 30 day trial and see what a scan brings.

You can certainly get rid of the partition easily with partion magic, but there's a small risk you could lose all your data. I'm guessing it's a small partition - I'd tell you to ignore it, but I never can ignore such problems either....

Cheers,
Paz.

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As far as XP goes I'm just going to give in and buy the damn thing...suck though since I actually have the software and it's legal! My Norton is '04 but so far it's doing ok.

Yeah, the partition is small...only 8mb. I'm going to take a look into it shortly but right now i have a lot of catching up to do on other things.

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