Hi, i'm duel booting ME on C: and xp-pro on D:. I haven't been in ME for nearly 2 months but went in there today and most of the programmes are missing from C: programmes folder, but an AVG scan showed they were there?
when I click on a programme through start , programmes I get an error saying the programme can't be found it might be on the network or somewhere on the hard drive, then it des a browse and says the short cut is missing and offers to fix it and does so, but MS office 2000 asks for the disc , so it's not being found.
Internet explorer and my other browsers were also missing but were fixed with the exception of IE. I tried system resore and it failed and then system restore completely vanished after the second attempt and reboot. I searched for it , and it's gone.
I therefore tried to get IE back and uninstalled the connection to the internet and I noticed another connection saying micromodem serverxxx. I guess that's a hackers connection? So I deleted that one too, tried to reinstall my internet connection using the ISP's latest disc and it failed, so I reverted back to the old disc and it successfully reinstalled IE 5.0 and then the computer eventually fixed it.
My question is, I haven't been in to ME in 2 months, so was it the last time I used it that I got hacked, or could someone hack me when I'm on Xp and get into ME on the C: drive?
And, how can I get system restore back? I really don't want to reformat as I only have a cd restore disc and not the ME disc? If I did restore using the system restore disc it should reinstall ME onto the C: and leave XP alone on the D: that's my fear having to reinstall both opps just to fix one of them?
# cheers in advance!
when I click on a programme through start , programmes I get an error saying the programme can't be found it might be on the network or somewhere on the hard drive, then it des a browse and says the short cut is missing and offers to fix it and does so, but MS office 2000 asks for the disc , so it's not being found.
Internet explorer and my other browsers were also missing but were fixed with the exception of IE. I tried system resore and it failed and then system restore completely vanished after the second attempt and reboot. I searched for it , and it's gone.
I therefore tried to get IE back and uninstalled the connection to the internet and I noticed another connection saying micromodem serverxxx. I guess that's a hackers connection? So I deleted that one too, tried to reinstall my internet connection using the ISP's latest disc and it failed, so I reverted back to the old disc and it successfully reinstalled IE 5.0 and then the computer eventually fixed it.
My question is, I haven't been in to ME in 2 months, so was it the last time I used it that I got hacked, or could someone hack me when I'm on Xp and get into ME on the C: drive?
And, how can I get system restore back? I really don't want to reformat as I only have a cd restore disc and not the ME disc? If I did restore using the system restore disc it should reinstall ME onto the C: and leave XP alone on the D: that's my fear having to reinstall both opps just to fix one of them?
# cheers in advance!
