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A week ago I found that my system had been infected with the backdoor.sd virus transmitted through irc clients. The virus allows a hacker to manipulate the hackee's files and programs.
I started noticing the infection when the computer would hang for a good two minutes during the "saving system settings" process of shutting down. (also some system files were mysteriously being shared on kazaa despite repeated unsharing by me)
Anyway I cleaned my HD and re-installed w2k but the system still hangs on shutting down. Nothing else is happening to indicate that the virus is still in the computer and I made sure by installing norton internet security.
(a side note: whoever hacked me initially must have distributed my ip or something because I have been getting daily intrusion attempts from ip's all over north america)
So I guess my question would be: is it possible that a virus could cause damage permanent enough to withstand re-partitioning or could it be a more subtle virus that somehow slips by norton or could the problem be completely unrelated to the hack altogether?
I started noticing the infection when the computer would hang for a good two minutes during the "saving system settings" process of shutting down. (also some system files were mysteriously being shared on kazaa despite repeated unsharing by me)
Anyway I cleaned my HD and re-installed w2k but the system still hangs on shutting down. Nothing else is happening to indicate that the virus is still in the computer and I made sure by installing norton internet security.
(a side note: whoever hacked me initially must have distributed my ip or something because I have been getting daily intrusion attempts from ip's all over north america)
So I guess my question would be: is it possible that a virus could cause damage permanent enough to withstand re-partitioning or could it be a more subtle virus that somehow slips by norton or could the problem be completely unrelated to the hack altogether?