hi
1. Recently my cd drive has been going in and out of its own accord, popups galore, homepage stuck, and things installed without my asking. Not to mention the machine feels a whole lot slower.
Ive been told i have bugs and/or a trojan? Is this correct?
If so, how can i kill them/prevent against them in future.
2. I have a 80GB harddrive in the NTFS windows XP file system, split into 2 partitions.
Do i need to reformat and install the windows again to make sure im all cleaned? If so, How can i go about reformatting the main boot section (partition 1) only. I dont want to reformat the whole drive. In DOS at bootup via startup disk, its not detecting i have a C drive to be able to format, but when i do it whilst the windows its there.
Also, surely there is a way to combat these evils without always reformatting
& how to prevent in future.
I hope you can please help, regards
JJP
p.s. it might be helpful to know that there are 4 users to this pc who don't all behave and feel the same about system security
e.g. my smaller bro has been caught viewing unsuitable websites
, are these a cause of probs?