I have a virus that blocks and unables the CD drive -How to delete it?

Question

I know that most of you will say : format from zero.But I don´t wanna go through the tedious task of 1.42mb per diskette saving hell....

I have a PI 133mhz machine with 12x cd drive. I know, quite old.

The thing is that it doens´t want to open the CD door and if it does by the mechanical option, it won´t acces it through win95a OS. I know I have a virus. I deleted the CD drive, restored it, put the drivers on....everything goes fine after reebooting.
When I shut it down, and turn it on after exactly 15 minutes, the CD is gone, and cannot acess it anymore. And then we start mayhem again. I went down to Norton, got chat with a technician, didn´t find anything. I know this virus has messed up the reg files system and it´s somewhere located at autoexect.bat becuase I can see the boot sequence, and how it modifies it...
I just don´t know HOW TO PROCEED. I only got 24mb ram for this machine. I cannot upload more than 2 gb because the entire machine has 5gb limit. No good antivirus

um...It´s "Disables CD drive"...sorry.

Answer 1

My instant solution to virus problems is Dr. Web. This program can be found free but with difficulty online. When I use it, it finds viruses that my AVG, Live Onecare, and Norton cannot find. Awhile back i recieved the polipos virus, and it rewrote itself 200,000 times into my machine, I went and found Dr. Web and never had the problem again. To get it just go to Dr.Web.com and go to downloads, look for their Cure-it! download and get that.

Answer 2

Well, this is quite difficult if you don't have an anti-virus program that will work with that out-dated, old, antique, pre-historic, stone-age operating system.

You will have to remove the virus manually by searching through the os and deleting files and registry entries pertaining to it. Which means that you have to know what files and entries they are.

But it could be not a virus causing the behavior, especially if this is the only thing that "it" causes.

By the time you determine what is causing this behavior and get rid of it, you could have saved your stuff on floppies and formatted and reinstalled. Modern email clients now have several gigs of server space for each account, so why not round up your stuff and send it to yourself, format and reinstall, and then go fetch your mail from whatever email account you used?

Answer 3

As a help on your question Formatting your rigidity "C" will damage all of your operating technique and your records (your entire portraits, music, artwork and some different saved ideas) you received't have any operating technique on the rigidity so your pc received't position. Reinstalling living house windows (OS) is an similar as Formatting with the added set up of the named OS so that you could rid your technique of any virus (till in the BIOS) and set up a as a lot as date sparkling OS. . i'd first try and sparkling your technique with a properly anti-virus application (there are free ones available) then as quickly because it is sparkling try and sparkling it of ad-ware and secret agent-ware intrusions, once better there are free scanners available. Then once you've a sparkling technique replace the anti-virus application in case you'll and also then you definately should be ok. it is about the only determination to maintain your entire records and your ideas and your technique walking

Answer 4

If you know the virus name you can try going to command prompt and manually deleting the virus if you know its name. If you have a better computer that can burn a cd, you can look for a bootable system repair cd and run some anti-virus from that, just make sure to boot from the cd, not from windows.

If you can download some files onto it, I recommend trying avast anti-virus, it will prompt you to run a boot scan (no cd required), and is free.

Answer 5

if it only happens after a reboot sounds more like an ide driver issue.if you had a virus surely it would have be identified and you could remove it. try keeping the std windows ide driver and see if that solves your problem

Answer 6

Press Control+Alt+Delete.
Do u find any unused application file???
I recommend u to install Mcafee.

Answer 7

delete virus with with mcafee viruscan from download.com
it may just be incompatible drivers
just go to your computers website and update drivers

Answer 8

well, may be u can try at www.livepcdoctor.com, at livepcdoctor a certified professional scan your system using the latest screen sharing technology for free.

Answer 9

you don't have to format its easy just get an anti virus it will handle it and resolve the problem

Answer 10

take ur computer to a place were they can fix that sort of thing or just get a new computer