That ZoneAlarm alert speaks volumes, and your hunch about this being a virus
may be on the money. I have a little USB adapter that would let me hook up a
sick drive to a good computer and use its antivirus scanners to scrub the
drive clean. Only set me back $25 or so and also helped me save data for a
client. Another tactic is to try booting the sick drive in Safe Mode and see
if you can scrub it in place. Sometimes Safe Mode will prevent a virus from
loading long enough for the scanner to spot and swat it. I would also add a
free rootkit scanner like Sophos to your toolkit and one for spyware like
AdAware or Spybot.

Kenneth Whyman
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"Chance favors the prepared mind."

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