virus help

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by SteveW1

I tried multiple adware programs as well as virus scanners, they wouldn't pick up diddly squat so in the end I backed up 8 DVD's worth of data and reformatted my hard drive.

You must be aware that it holds a risk to create backups from the time your system already has been affected. It is better to do regular backups, or incremental backups, of your wokring files, and have three sets of them from the past three (or how many you want) timestamps, so that you can always go back to a backup originating from a time when everything still was in order. else you reinstall your system, copy your infested data back to it - and you are were you started, in the middle of the mess.