I found a sign of a virus

I think you, and ALL anti-virus programs are missing a tell-tail sign that a virus is infecting a system. I recently helped a friend with a system that was acting funny. I was LUCKY in finding a sign there was a virus. The sign was, under DISK MANAGEMENT there was no C: Drive showing. All other drives were visible. If I looked under MY COMPUTER, all drives INCLUDING C: showed. I ended up having to remove the drive, connect it to another system, scan it there. It was found and removed. I put it back in, and it was able to be cleaned then. The virus I THINK was responsible was Alureon.H. Please make it so your software checks this, as a sign the system is infected.

There’s one virus I found recently, that NO anti-virus or malware detectors I had, or that were already installed on the systems, could find. Here’s the only sign I ever saw that it was on a system.

  1. Go to Control Panel
  2. Go to Administrative Tools
  3. Go into Computer Management
  4. Go into Storage - Disk Management

In Disk Management, look for the same drive letters you see under ‘My Computer’. For instance, if you have a C: drive that you boot off of under My Computer, be sure you have it under Disk Management.

ON two systems I recently worked on, I did NOT see a C: drive in Computer management, but it showed under My Computer. I ended up having to remove the drives from the infected system and attached them to another system, then have that system scan the drives. A few programs were able to find the Virus’s and remove them while the drives were no longer the boot drive. I then put them back in the original system, and all was ok.

Good Luck 4U2U!!!