In all my years of computing, and they go back to the big iron,
thru the kits, DRDOS, and now WIN 7, I have never, repeat
never, had a virus until yesterday morning on my ZT desktop.
Incidently, XP pro is on the ZT. I have Win 7 on my laptop.
ANTISPYWARE SOFT has gotten extremely sophisticated. It
It now prevents SAFE MODE (F8), REGEDIT is disabled, and
the kicker--I was able to bring up taskmgr on startup by
swifly giving CTL ALT DEL. But the offending programs,
named LASS, SRSS, SMSS were incapable of deletion,
changing their priority etc. I called ZT who said my only
relief is to do a recovery which scrubs the hard drive. I have
removed the HD and will see if it is accessible on another
computer in hopes of trying to recover something. I toyed
with the idea of paying their ransom in the hope that the
feds might pursue. But ZT said they use an intermediary
and are from a foreign country. You have to give these
criminals credit for their ability to completely confiscate
the machine and the display of the filthiest PORNO out
there. I printed out the 10 pages of Dr. Inferno removal
which is predicated on SAFE MODE. Why wouldn't a
simple boot disk (CD) with MALWAREBYTES work? Does
such a CD exist? I just joined yesterday, so if I have
broken any rules in posting, sp errors, or offended
whatever, I apologize.