Need help with viruses.

[guncrasher]

thanks, but how would i go about reformating my hard drive?  also mcafee detects this virus on my e and f drives which are my regular cd and dvd burner drives. and only detects it when i place this cd in.

[Skuzzy]

It could be a false trigger.  It is not beyond the realm of possibilites that whoever sent the CD out actually has a run of CD's with a virus imbedded on them.  It would just be odd for that to happen.

[BEARING3]

spybot search and destroy, or windows live care

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Here's a good place to compare antivirus programs: http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_08.php

There's 99% chance your antivirus program is giving a false positive if it finds a virus from a printed CD that came with the hardware.

1% chance exists but most likely it's a false alarm. Avast reports many setups made with Innosetup or self extracting WinRAR as a virus for example.

[TilDeath]

I just found a trojan virus (horse), it disabled my firewall (mcafee) and it messed it up my computer pretty bad to the point I had to reinstall everything. however when reinstalling back to original I kept on finding the same virus.  I finally figure out that the virus was attached to my att&t yahoo dsl installation cd.  I know this cd didnt have this virus when I first installed my dsl.  Now my question is I always thought that installation cd's were read only and you could not write to them.  but how did it get infected with this virus? mcafree can only detect this virus but not remove it from the installation cd.  I also have just bought about 3 weeks ago an x52 and just found that this cd also has a adware-url.gen program is this a program that normally comes with x52 installation cd?  thanks

Without knowing the real situation, but it sounds like your getting whats called "False Positives", Try a few scans from others.  AS Skuzzy said, you can not get a virus from a manufactured CD, hence my thoughts of false positives.   I have found that NOD32 from Eset www.eset.com works well.  Is in use by a lot of financial institutions, updates it virus patterns a few times per day rather then once weekly.  Very stable and reliable suite or virus program.

[Fulmar]

Well there have been VERY VERY rare instances that viruses have been accidently included on manufactured/program CD's.  It's been several years since the last time I heard about one in the news.  I think I remember hearing one that came with some IPOD versions back in the day.  But I'd take my odds of being hit by lightning 3 times wearing a clown suit during Thursday Happy hour over a virus on the CD.

[Vulcan]

There's 99% chance your antivirus program is giving a false positive if it finds a virus from a printed CD that came with the hardware.

Err no. It's more common than you'd think to see virus's/malware on shipped cd's, dvd's, digital photo frames, usb storage, ipods, creative mp3 players etc.