A word to the wise... I found out today my system had contracted another virus within the last week. I know there are new viruses all the time and it is impossible for a antivirus program to protect against them all. It's still IRONIC that after spending $60, is when I get an infection.
It was the W32.badtrans... virus. I had thought that a recent software installation was causing the problem (it was I guess...). There's not much differences between a virus and the normal way Windows systems work. A Kernel32.exe file would produce an error every time I used the computer. About 15 min after turning it on. This AM Antivirus prompted me to download updates, which I did. It then went into it's virus checking routine and found 4 infected files which IT COULD NOT fix, one of them being the above mentioned file. Here's the really crappy part. It told be my Master Boot Record had changed and asked if I wanted to restore it. Since it just told me I had a virus, and since I knew of no reason it should have changed, I said "YES". Well, upon rebooting, l & behold I have no logical D:\ drive. It was partitioned over two years ago. So why in &*&$% would Norton Antivirus restore it to something that would erase my logical drive. I since downloaded the special TOOL they have to remove the virus, NOT given to me by the Liveupdate process. I am virus free I think. I've got a support post into Symantec to get some help on the Master Boot Record issue. Does anyone here know how to restore a logical drive without erasing it's contents? Windows 98 Second Edition is the OS. Thanks. Tom C. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
