Trojan / Worm got Vista 64

[RaderCad]

Had a nasty Trojan and worm combo just trash vista to pieces.

Worked for two days trying unsuccessfully to get rid of the beasties. Nothing would update, not even McAfee, MallWareBytes, Vista, nothing..... Got worse and worse. Decided to byte (hahahaha) the bullet and re-install Vista.

What a joke. The restore disk saw all the drives (I've got two) and deleted the partition and reformatted on the WindBlow$ disk. It will not take the final step and install. Tried to do a restore with a one year old ISO but same thing, it errors out and will not write to the disk. Now I tried looking at the DRIVER disk that came with the system but nothing was on drivers for the HD's. Funny it sees them Partitions them, formats them but will not write to them Now I am now on the Kubuntu side, It still works.

Now what do I do?

[Woody]

So...I assume you've tested the drive with Kubuntu and there's no hardware issues?

You could borrow a retail installer of Vista (or download one) and use the license key you already have with your laptop which will work fine as long as you select the same version of Vista. The only drawback here is that you may need to update some of your system drivers manually after the install but you don't need to reinstall all the drivers. In fact, you will probably find a clean install of Vista from a retail installer with only the essential drivers and none of the ads, trials, or maintenance software the OEM includes from the factory runs much nicer than your original install. Much of your system will run just fine using the default drivers installed by Windows. You can browse the hardware manager to determine which hardware needs updated drivers.

Just be sure to update Windows to the latest service packs by downloading them directly from Microsoft....it will be much faster than using Windows update.

[fault]

If you know what the virus is doing, sometimes thats the easiest way. I had gotten a really nasty goolge redirect virus that was embedded IN my virus scanning program. I had tried bitdefender, spybot, avg, symnaptec, trojanhunter, and malware bytes. Eventually, via google I found a program that could sucessfully remove it, it was a tool specifically for removing that trojan