Posted: 1/1/2011 6:50:16 AM EDT
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Last night I updated Avast, restarted my desktop(XP) an had no taskbar. Explorer was running so I tried changing the taskbar settings and was able to get it up but some of the icons were missing on it. I also noticed each time I rebooted, Avast had an alert and was not running, but would repair and allow me to scan. The only way I could get the full taskbar was to log of and then on, but if I rebooted, no taskbar again. I ran a quick scan and found an MBR rootkit, not good. I believe removing them has to be done manually.
We got a new PC for Christmas but I want to transfer the photos to the new PC and set this up for my daughter to use. I was going to transfer photos by CDR and not a flashdrive. Any risks to my new PC doing this? Also anyone know of a good computing website/forum that might be able to help with this mess? Any help would be appreciated. TIA |
So long as you arn't trying to do anything you may have omitted to write down, you can safely copy the pic files with flash drive so long as the target computer doesn't have autorun* or anything similarly stupid enabled, nor do you deliberately or unknowingly do the same.  |
| Thanks for your reply. I disabled auto-run on the new PC and haven't made any changes to the old PC other than updating Avast and Malwarebytes, then running scans. Any opinion about Bleeping computer.com or the like? Looks like they are doing some good there. BTW the rootkit file that was found by Avast is: mbr: \\.\physicaldrive0 ...... Any thoughts? |