smurfy4096
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- Sep 10, 2012
hi everyone, I'm new to this forum. I am desperate About 6 months ago I bought an Acer Win 7 computer. at this point. I am not a computer newbie, I have been around them for almost 25 yrs. I have been in a battle with my computer for several months now. I have Avast Internet Security, AntimalwareBytes, WinPatrol and SpywareBlaster, SpyBot S&D . I am having a problem with take over of my files and drives.I have 3 partitions on my computer, I can see them, but can not access them except "C:`.
. One "E" drive was set as a Sata drive, I managed to get that back to a NTFS drive after I formatted it. Later I went to check my D drive and was denied access to it.I keep everything up to date with usually two updates per day. I run scans at different times each day.When I ran Avast on D drive, most things were in the "/Recycler" and there were 3 decompression bombs located. This was the drive I kept a back up image on. I have reinstalled Win 7 at least 10 times in the past couple months. But whatever I have eludes all my efforts to get rid of it.I also have 2 external drives and a thumb drive that hold ID # and product keys. These are now denying me access . I reinstalled my win 7 two days ago and my files are controlled by CREATOR OWNER and Trusted Installer again.When I try to remove them, the area is greyed out or I don't have permission to change anything. All my programs I have to get rid of this are now owned by someone else.Does anyone have any idea what I can do. I have even gone into command prompt and deleted net share, but they keep coming back...HELPPPP !!!!
Just to check, you have one SATA hard drive with three partitions formatted as NTFS, or 3 SATA hard drives formatted as NTFS?
You are not using any other drives, like an external drive that might contain some type of virus?
Are you working in some highly dangerous environment that requires all the Virus protection?
You should not mess with the TrustedInstaller. It is there to help protect your system and is used by Windows Update and many other things to update and repair your files.
I would probably disconnect any drives, if you have more than one, and reinstall Windows 7. Stay offline and don't install the Anti-Virus utilities and see what happens. After some period of time, install an anti-virus, and most folks here run Microsoft Security Essentials, and see what happens. but if your system is doing something you don't like, you need to limit what you do to try to see what might be causing the problem.
Just to check, you have one SATA hard drive with three partitions formatted as NTFS, or 3 SATA hard drives formatted as NTFS?
You are not using any other drives, like an external drive that might contain some type of virus?
Are you working in some highly dangerous environment that requires all the Virus protection?
You should not mess with the TrustedInstaller. It is there to help protect your system and is used by Windows Update and many other things to update and repair your files.
I would probably disconnect any drives, if you have more than one, and reinstall Windows 7. Stay offline and don't install the Anti-Virus utilities and see what happens. After some period of time, install an anti-virus, and most folks here run Microsoft Security Essentials, and see what happens. but if your system is doing something you don't like, you need to limit what you do to try to see what might be causing the problem.
We need to calm this down and look at it in a different way. You seem to think SATA and NTFS are rivals. Most hard drives now are SATA drives. That has nothing to do with how they are formatted, as NTFS, or FAT32 partitions.
Viruses can spread from an external drive (or internal) to your system in an instant.... Keeping external drives attached, which may have a virus, is silly.
Since I don't know your exact situation, again, I would reinstall Windows 7 on just the primary drive and download MSE as an anti-virus. Then give it some time to see what happens. If you continue to have problems, it may not be a virus.