Recovering ME after KLez & Elcorn

[Orangeman]

HI,

A friend brought over his computer after it was infected by two viruses, Klez and Elcorn. He has a Dell, 700mhz celeron, with WinME.

When I disinfected it, my AV scanner was able to disinfect the files with Elcorn, but it had to Delete the files with Klez. The deleted files were located in the C:\Restore\Temp\folder.

While the process was going on I was using an old monitor that still works but is 7 years old. It worked fine with a Windows 95 computer.

However after the post and splash screen I receive nothing but video distortion. It looks like an old B&W 1960's TV set with its 'fine tuning' control turned too far to the right. It is still like that now.

Is this a problem with the specific monitor I am using, or did Klez delete my monitor drivers. If Klex deleted the monitor drivers, how can I restore the drivers if I can't see anything on the picture after the post?


Thanks,
Orangeman

[Votan]

Dell has all dirvers for their machines on their web site:

https://support.dell.com/register.aspx

Choose system type and go from there.

[Orangeman]

Thanks Votan,

Orangeman

[NooNoo]

Boot to safe mode and check device manager... delete any and all monitors there and let windows reboot to normal and reinstall a driver.

[Orangeman]

That makes sense NooNoo. Thanks

Does WinME boot to SafeMode by pressing F8 like Win98?

Orangeman

[NooNoo]

Yes

F8 is common to all windows operating systems, except those starting 1, 2 or 3

[meatwad]

You might want to get the kleztool removal utility and run it once, just to make sure that you got all of the virus. That is, if you haven't already. Fsecure has one on their site and so does Norton and Kaspersky.

[Orangeman]

Thanks MeatWad,

aready got it,

Orangeman