computer has so many viruses. Backdoor.Trojan, w32.spybot.worm and many others. At one point, I couldn't even boot into safe mode and then had to format and reload programs. loaded norton firewall and norton antivirus, continued to have viruses. Pc-cillin did absolutely nothing to prevent my computer from being infected. Then tried zone alarm and spybot search and destroy. Help! I don't know what else to do. formatting didn't work and I tried that twice. Any suggestions. "Excellence is not an art, but a habit. What you do the most, you will do the best." -Marva Collins Sunshine

Virus and Spyware scans work better in Windows Safe-Mode. While on the Internet, Another thing that helps is press the Alt + F4 buttons on your keyboard to close a window or popup. Clicking anything in the popup window may cause something bad to get loaded into computer.

"formatting didn't work and I tried that twice." What?! Formatting get's rid of everything on the hard drive - programs, data, viruses - all files. If you truely did a format and you are getting problems after reinstalling windows, the viruses are getting there from an "outside" source. by outside, I just mean outside the hard-drive. For instance it could be coming from media you are opeing or a network drive or from an internet connection. Since you have already formatted a coulpe of times I say go ahead and start from scratch. Boot up from the WindowsXP install disc - make sure there is no other media in any drives (optical, flash, floppy). Also, remove any network connection - but download the SP2 executable and burn to a CD (from a clean computer) beforehand. Use the install disk to destroy all partitions on all hard drives and recreate and format as necessary. Install windows and then apply the SP2 patch. Install a good Anti-Virus software and ensure the real-time scanner is active - and make sure the fireall is active as well. Set up your internet connection and go to windows update to get all the security patches. Then update your virus definition files. You should then scan ALL backup files or media you have been using, because if you really were doing a format and install previously, the viruses were being reintroduced from somewhere. Michael J

harddrive has two partitions on it and the second partition was loaded with viruses. Now my problem is saving those files and reformatting and repartitioning the entire harddrive. Thanks, Should have thought of that myself the first time around. indiemay