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<blockquote data-quote="prutledg" data-source="post: 132357" data-attributes="member: 11184"><p>Update - I may have found a solution. Once again I used the Kaspersky rescue disk, being sure to update it. After the update, I had it do a scan and it found a backdoor trojan that it did not find a few days ago when I did the same scan. After removing that trojan I was able to boot up in safe mode - sort of. There was still malware on boot up but instead of closing off my access to dos as it usually did, there was a small screen on the top left of the computer screen that allowed me to run dos commands. From Dos I could update Malwarebytes and run a perliminary scan. It found 10 viruses - my guess is that they are all associated with the ICE virus. This was just on the short scan. This time when it rebooted it loaded the WINDOWS screen ok, and now I am doing a full scan. I suspect the virus is mostly defeated, but, as with last time, there may be remnants of it that continue to affect the computer, such as the system firewall and perhaps system restore. I was able to work around those issus last time by manually restoring those functions and will hopefully be able to do this again. THE KEY TO THE REPAIR WAS TO WAIT FOR KASPERSKY TO UPDATE ITS MALWARE - I WAITED ABOUT 4 OR 5 DAYS - AND THEN TRY AGAIN USING THE KASPERSKY RESCUE DISK TO GET ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM. THEN, ONCE YOU CAN BOOT TO DOS,&nbsp; FOLLOW UP WITH MALWAREBYTES - ACCESSED VIA DOS. (MALWAREBYTES WAS ALREADY LOADED ON THE INFECTED COMPUTER BUT IT NEEDED THE MOST RECENT UPDATE AND I COULD ONLY ACCESS IT VIA THE SYSTEM DOS). This is a really sophisticated virus - it keeps being modified in more powerful ways -&nbsp; and it is extremely prevalent. Hopefully you good guys can keep up with it. I will report if there are more problems after the current full scan I am doing is completed.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="prutledg, post: 132357, member: 11184"] Update - I may have found a solution. Once again I used the Kaspersky rescue disk, being sure to update it. After the update, I had it do a scan and it found a backdoor trojan that it did not find a few days ago when I did the same scan. After removing that trojan I was able to boot up in safe mode - sort of. There was still malware on boot up but instead of closing off my access to dos as it usually did, there was a small screen on the top left of the computer screen that allowed me to run dos commands. From Dos I could update Malwarebytes and run a perliminary scan. It found 10 viruses - my guess is that they are all associated with the ICE virus. This was just on the short scan. This time when it rebooted it loaded the WINDOWS screen ok, and now I am doing a full scan. I suspect the virus is mostly defeated, but, as with last time, there may be remnants of it that continue to affect the computer, such as the system firewall and perhaps system restore. I was able to work around those issus last time by manually restoring those functions and will hopefully be able to do this again. THE KEY TO THE REPAIR WAS TO WAIT FOR KASPERSKY TO UPDATE ITS MALWARE - I WAITED ABOUT 4 OR 5 DAYS - AND THEN TRY AGAIN USING THE KASPERSKY RESCUE DISK TO GET ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM. THEN, ONCE YOU CAN BOOT TO DOS, FOLLOW UP WITH MALWAREBYTES - ACCESSED VIA DOS. (MALWAREBYTES WAS ALREADY LOADED ON THE INFECTED COMPUTER BUT IT NEEDED THE MOST RECENT UPDATE AND I COULD ONLY ACCESS IT VIA THE SYSTEM DOS). This is a really sophisticated virus - it keeps being modified in more powerful ways - and it is extremely prevalent. Hopefully you good guys can keep up with it. I will report if there are more problems after the current full scan I am doing is completed. [/QUOTE]

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