Virus Nightmare

[C French]

Housecall found these 2 - TROJ_APROPO.B - TROJ_AGENT.BE. They are in my "Restore/Temp files"

"ME" is my cursed OS.

The fix according to Microsoft & MajorGeeks was disable system restore and restart in safe mode and then run virus scan again and I would be able to clean and delete the virus. My problem is my computer locks up when the desktop loads in safe mode. So I tried the above without starting in safe mode. The next problem is the virus scan dosen't scan my RESTORE/TEMP Files when I "disable system restore", thus it finds no viruses.

I was using AVG when I got infected. In an effort to find an AV that would remove these viruses, I downloaded several trial AV's. Bit-Defender, Pc-cillin and lastly Norton which has turned out to be worse than the virus's I'm infected with.

I tried to uninstall Norton and could not uninstall all the components. So next I tried to search and manually remove anything associated with Norton. I found a few Norton files & deleted these, but I know there's many I'm not finding that show up if I run Trend Micro Housecall scan.

Final Chapter---> Since I've deleted all my trial AV's. I decided to give Panda a try. Panda won't install because it says the Norton files on my computer are conflicting and to remove these.

So I check my Add/Remove files in the control Panel and there's no Norton program there. So I searched files again and found 4 Norton files and manually deleted with the exception of One that wouldn't delete. Recycle bin says the file cannot be deleted. I restart my computer and go back to Recycle bin and this time it deleted the file.

Here's the good part. I click on Control Panel and everything has disappered, gone, nothing there. It says 33 objects at the bottom of the screen but I have only a blank page. Now I can't access my system setting, Add/Remove or anything else. Panda still won't install, it says to remove Norton. I can't remove something I can't find or see. I have no Restore Points in system restore.

Any suggestions, or would this computer make a good boat anchor at this point?

One more question. Could I do a clean install and upgrade to XP Professional.Would the current virus's conflict with this?

[mushroom]

Originally Posted by Charles French

Any suggestions, or would this computer make a good boat anchor at this point?

You could sell it cheap to some one like me.

I would simply install Linux and put it back in service.

[wenwilder]

A clean install would be the optimal solution.

At any time did you clean your registry files for Norton?