Thanks Essexboy-
The Asus didnt come with disks, but it had me make a whole bunch of DVDs that I assume are the reinstal- The problem is I littlerally have a year of configuration invested in the machine (It’s why I did restore ppoints all the time) because it’s a digital audio worksation and the every app needs lots of tweeks to work correctly-

Have one other apprach with a Karpasky rescue disc-

So if I have to start all over, here’s the big question- I am almost certain that this is the same virus that killed my last PC- Exact same symptoms, the closer you get the more it shuts down, I don’t go to questionable sites, etc…

I was running AVG on that computer and had switched to Avast on this computer, so clearly they cant handle this particular virus and assuming I brought it over to the new system when I reloaded the files.

So what do I do? When I rebuild this computer, I have all my files on my network drive, but the last thing I want to do is to copy them back and start the process all over. Is there a super powerful system or process that I can use to scan those files on my network drive?

I am a musician not a software guy, so I’m over my head most of the time and am scared to death of another rebuild-

Thanks again for the help and I hope this might help someone else in the future-
ZS

also, just realized that my other computer must be infected as well as they share a network drive and I move files back and forth- Good news is it is still running ok, and we have learned that this virus is smart enough to shut the system down when we start looking for it-

Ideas on how to go after it before i hook all of this back together?

Thanks!
M

You can give that a try, maybe you can copy your files from the disk.

Download and Manual to run it from a USB Drive:

http://support.kaspersky.com/8092

At this stage no, it was a bit difficult to determine from the other thread

Yep, on the other thread Kaspersky is the first thing that is keeping the computer from crashing, however, the infected drive is apparently hiding itself so that it cant be scanned:(

Anyway, thanks so much for your time!
ZS

Sorry we were unable to resolve it