Blue - "details are pertinent, even in brainstorming. If details are missing, the chance of brainstorming a different issue increases..., a lot."...
Blue - "This needs to be fleshed out with precise facts, not generalities." I understand, and respect, both your sentiment and opinion....
Seer - "Flashing a BIOS' firmware is a piece of cake." Agreed. "It's not hard to imagine a malware that can do the same and attach itself...
Zapjb - "Until I hear different I think Op is trying to fix this while still connected to network(s)." At this particular stage of the game you...
yankinNcrankn - "I personally have never failed in restoring a system this way providing that the hardware is ok." Me either until this one....
Seer - "Something that controls your hardware on a lower level than HD and stays on flashable chips, so format cannot kill it. I'm actually not...
Zapjb - the answer to that is 'yes and no', or 'depends upon at what point we are discussing'. As simply as I can put it. At various times...
Vkidv - Dell laptop. And, before you ask, while I haven't checked for a bios upgrade recently I was keeping it current at the time. Still...
Vkidv. Yes I do. Yes I have. Not this latest hard-drive from another system but 2 of the prior. No better luck with the scans than when the...
Zapjb. I too would be very dubious were I to put myself in your shoes. In fact, I have a problem believing that its happening myself....
Seer. Were I to post all of the details of everything I have done since the problem began, scan results, logs, tools used, symptoms encountered,...
Thanks Pandlouk. Sooner or later SOME scanner will find it if for no other reason than they are all being constantly updated and I'm fairly...
Yes to the firewall. Yes to the genuine. Yes to the contact MS for new CD.
No. As near as I have been able to determine it probably started with a chm or metadata vulnerability that opened a backdoor. At the time I had...
I'm not a newbie. I know quite a bit about computers, software, security, and so forth. But, I only have one brain, I don't know everything, and...
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