Hi
I was browsing through three or four pages. My system suddenly hang and I
had to restart. On restart 'Adware' had an alarm that certain registry keys
are being modified. I tried blocking the changes but don't know what happened
a total of 28 registry keys were changed and all of the executable files were
changed to the extension '.lnk' and I could not run anything not even
Internet Explorer. But I wonder, all the drivers were working fine. I have
Mcafee Enterprise 8.0i; but still it could not work. Could it have been
because of a firewall problem as I use the built in firewall of Windows?
I formatted and reinstalled everything on the root partition. Luckily the
virus did not infect the other partitions.
What could have caused this problem and how can I stop it from happening
again!
Hemanth