O/T - Severe PC Problem

[Blatman]

But the virus may well simply migrate to the key along with the files you want to save. Seen that a *lot*. The virus doesn't care what sort of disc or storage media it infects, and USB thumb drives and external HDD's are just as inviting as a fully working O/S HDD...

[RichP]

Hi all

I've run Norton tools which found and sorted a couple of issues. Spybot found loads and sorted them. The disk scan at startup seems to have gone away as a result - reboot happens normally.

I'm not sure how to tell if all is now ok, but as far as I can see everything is back to normal.

If there's no way of checking for sure that all bugs are gone, I must assume it's fixed

Many thanks for everyone's advice and guidance - much appreciated.

Rich