Computer question...?

Question

OK, I have an old machine with a virus on it. It is imposable to get rid off with out formating your hard drive. But, if I format the hard drive and re-install windows, it will not be genuine...Instead of booting into safe mode and un installing each and ever program individually, can I just go into the program files section and delete every folder? Or would this leave ther whole hard drive corrupt?

Answer 1

what type of virus are we dealing with? trojan horse vundo? spyware? adware? what? can you please apply more info hon?

Answer 2

You need to tell us what OS its using ? 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP ?

Edit:

XP - good

Do the following go to windows update & update windows keep going back until there are no updates.

then do two free online scans:

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

These scans take time & remove what they find If they cannot remove something note the name & path & e mail me.