few years ago when Kazaa first came out I was playing a game with a buddy till 4am & at the time didn't know anything about port forwarding so I just opend my pc up with DMZ. Since I played till I couldn't see straight went straight to be leaving my machine wide open.
Next morning forgot all about DMZ being open & went right to Kaza & Downloaded an mp3 file. Periodically after downloading files & would check to see if file was complete. This time I looked down & the file name was BonJovi.Mp3.VBS
Upon further investigation I found that all of my Mp3 & .Jpg files were named as follows: .Mp3.vbs & .jpg.vbs right then & there I knew I was slammed with a virus. Since I built the PC I figured I would just chalk it up as a loss & reformat the drive to wipe it clean & do a complete fresh install of the os.
I got to the part where it asks you to name the Volume in FDISK but then I saw that the name of the Volume was in characters much like the ones you see on Playing cards.
They Looked like Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs & spades. To this day I still have the hard drive but no Idea how to clean it: have tried using it as a Master & also as a slave but I cannot find an application to rename the files in DOS sinceI do not have the characters.
I know the Hard Drive was Manufactures in 2003 & made by samsung & spinpoint series model# SP800H I mostlikely at the time was using Win98se
All I want to do is be able to format the hard drive so I can re-use it again but seems like w/o the heart, diamaond, shaped characters in dos I cannot rename to Volume so I can then delete the existing Partition & Create new one to Format & do a complete re-install of a new OS.
thanks in advance~
yours truely-
Idiot123