Hi, everyone!
I have been on dial-up for 10 years. At last I was able to install broadband through Hughes satellite and in 3 week was attacked by severe something(???). With my Norton Personal Wirewall 2002 and Norton Antivirus 2002 with latest antivirus data I cannot figure out for more than a week what's happening (with 17 years of working in computer field...)
I have 3 operating systems Win2K on partitions (let's call them this) A, B & C.
My problems began when suddenly some of my directories became unreadable with bunch of files and non-existing subdirectories consisted of scrambled characters: squares, symbols, etc. It it important to emphasize that while some of them are unreadable from system A (i.e. when I boot into A), the same bunch is readable from system B and vice versa - the other bunch is not readable from B, but readable from A.
It happens mostly on the data partitions - I have 8 of them on 3 hard drives altogether.
Then it became much worth with loss of the systems and crashes on 2 other computers on the home network.
The other problems include, but not limited to:
1. complete wipeout of one partition
2. blue screens of death starting from no bootable device (sorry. I did not write), hardware errors, UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
3. windows chkdisk at startup wipes out directories and converts them into files (it's logical for unreadable characters, though)
I was restoring the systems from the drive image and data from backups, but problems continue, of course, because the reason for them remains.
Scanned with McAfee, spyware programs, etc. and did not find anything. If you need more info about my systems please let me know and I would post them.
An interesting detail, though. Started software Trojan Remover Rmvtrjan.exe on the infected system, it crashed at the scan for "bogus explorer" and whenever I tried to start it again, Dr. Watson gave me very confusing errors, but NOT about Rmvtrjan.exe, BUT about programs called differently each time, like ad34.exe, cj87.exe, ik98.exe, etc...
Certainly there is some monster sitting there.
I am absolutely devastated, because my work depends on computer and I spent already hours and hours and could not even come closer to the solution. Which programs to use to detect it? Can I recover files which are unreadable from one partition, but readable from another?
Your help would be appreciated with NO LIMITS of my gratitude.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks from baraka_17360
