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OK.. Have I got a question for all you computer experts. I was running a spy scanner today and it showed I had a trojan horse ( win32.delf.ak and Norton missed it)and I wanted to remove it. Looking on the web, all the info I could find said to log in safe mode and delete the registry entry. My computer would not let me do a F8 safe log in so I tried the safe mode from the boot.ini and after doing this my computer gets stuck in a boot loop in safe mode, gets to the start up screen, does a quick BSOD (which I cant read what it says), and reboots. If I try to boot off the xp install disk and do a repair it says there isn't any hard drive present and can't do anything. I have been on the phone with Microsoft all afternoon and they are scratching their collective heads. Earlier in the day I updated my drivers ( VIA, video driver, etc) but after each reboot the system ran fine. I did all the updates before I found the trojan horse and as I stated before the sytem ran fine after each reboot after each update. SOOOOO does anyone have any ideas what I can do to do correct this? Also the hard drive is not making any noise and the hard drive light does turn on to indicate a failure and it was workig fine prior to the reboot from Hell.
Any and all help would be appreciated ( plus there is the extra benny of showing up Micosoft).