Nimda virus revisited - wheres it hiding?

Hi all,

I hate to dredge this topic up again but you guessed it, its back!
I posted last week and you all helped me kill it off with Norton AV, and the Nimda Fix Tools.

I had thought I killed it. After all the scans came back negative I had to reformat and reinstall the OS because it had damaged so many of my sons programs his computer was useless.

I first ran the old Debug program over the disk then I partitioned the disk into two parts. A 4 gig for the OS, 16 gigs for the files (photos, music, apps) and a 1 gig for the Page File.

I did a full format on the 4 gig BUT BUT BUT only a 'Quick format' on the other 17 gigs.

I loaded new programs (photo 7, acrobat, winRAR, Office2002, ACDsee 5.0, Norton AV corp, Trojan Killer, maybe a few more).

I updated Norton but did not scan the computer.

Well my son DID NOT even get a chance to load ANY of his old data. The next day Norton detected the dreaded Nimda Virus again (250 infected files) at his second sitting at the computer!

What did I do wrong and where did this come from? Is it because I failed to do a full format of all the disk? I also did not replace the MBR. Was this it? Its not the web sites for I check all the three sites he visited with an old machine and it was fine.

All I can figure is the ‘Quick format’ I did on the Page file partition and the Data partition left some remnants of NIMDA. If that’s true then why didn’t the ‘Nimda fix tool’ work to kill that virus?

Please, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I've already started the reformat process again but this time I'm formatting the entire disk. I'll partition it later.

Thanks

Doug

OS: winxp corp, w/ Norton AV corp (7.61.930)

eeee.....I hate nimda..I get hit with it every other day it seems like. So far AVG has been my saving grace. When I was using Norton, I had to reformat after getting hit with nimda.

Pc-Cillin for me.
Never had a prob w/nimda and less problems that norton (which I swore by a few months ago) .

Smizack said:

Pc-Cillin for me.
Never had a prob w/nimda and less problems that norton (which I swore by a few months ago) .

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I've used Pc-Cillin...I much prefer AVG...to date, I have tried Mcafee (sp?), NAV, Pc-Cillin and AVG...so far, AVG wins...although, I don't recall any problems with Pc-Cillin.

I finally killed it off. It was hiding in the MBR. I had to do a low level format to kill it.

Thanks for the help,

I'll looking that other AV software

Doug