It is a virus, indeed...

[*= WildCat =*]

If the measure of wiping a HDD is needed because the OS is damaged via a Virus (taking in to account you do have full instillation disk to reinstall your OS) DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) will totally erase all data and any Virus, also its Free.

DBAN's erase methods, security levels, number of passes and details

 

[SamanthaB]

Thank you guys! A friend came over and we spent a couple of hours on this one, but my computer is as good as new now

---------- Post added at 09:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:29 AM ----------

Thank you guys, your information was very useful! A friend came over and we spent a couple of hours on this one, but my computer is as good as new now

 

[cb600fshornet]

You're welcome