I don't believe this is a problem caused by malware - merely a case of a
crosslinked file which happened to be critical (system.ini) no amount of
security is going to prevent that (although a good backup regime would make
repair easier!)

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

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"Walterius" wrote in message
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Personally, I would boot into DOS and reformat the hard drive. Also run
Scandisk on all drives. I would then reinstall Windows using a *real*
Windows CD, not that crap they call a recovery disk.

You could use DOS to back up your data files before you do it.

After rebuilding, I would learn and use INTENSE computer security so this
doesn't happen again.

HTH.
Walterius
Old but secure in Fort Lauderdale.