Re: Update to IE7 and Corrupt MFT

It's a Partition virus people ! I seriously doubt it's from IE7, I have the
same thing on one of my machines now . It's an installed bundle of malware
that attaches to ur hard drive . If it's installed correctly, The only way to
remove it is to install another hard drive or if you have another system you
the Anti-Spyware tools and hope they pick up the infections . Don't bother
with the CHKDSK Feature of Windows, The files that the tool depends on become
corrupted and will remove the errors but the malware just reinstalls them
after the next boot . I found that if you use the "CHKDSK/R" you might
recover delete traces of the malware !

"AlanB" wrote:

> "PA Bear" wrote:
> > Each time you installed IE7, did you not see a prompt early on that advised
> > you to disable your anti-virus application? Did you do so?
>
> I have never done this hitherto when installing IE7 and it never went wrong
> before. I don't recall seeing a prompt but I would probably ignore the
> advice until proven wrong.
>
> In the instance that is the subject of this thread I was proven wrong. So I
> went further and uninstalled the anti-virus program, after which IE7
> installed successfully.
>
> To me the point of interest here is that there is no obvious relationship
> between the symptoms and the cause/cure. The symptoms prevented me from
> doing a System Restore and I only discovered that I should uninstall IE7
> because others have reported the same problem and associated it with IE7.