Suspect virus in my laptop

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Ever since I have my new desktop, I place my laptop in my sister's room and pretty much let her run it. I check today and it is messed up.

First of all, a virus message pop up, generated by the McAfee anti-virus program, it says a trojan had been detected in the win32 folder. It can neither be cleaned or removed.

Then, when I attempt to run programs, it will take hours for it to load, and sometimes it simply won't be run.

I then attemped to use my "system restore" CDs to perform a system recovery, I have used it a few times before, it will just clean everything up and pretty much takes me back to when I first bought it. However, this time, the laptop shows the CD drive is not ready for use... The operation failed.

My sister is one of those computer users who do not care what she is downloading, she will just download and install everything, ranging from online instant messengers to yahoo toolbars. I suspected she might have downloaded some virus and not even know it. (She claimed she didn't do anything to harm the computer, and it was working fine the last time she used it...)

Do you guys have any ideas what problems my laptop is having? What are the causes? And are there any solutions? I'm willing to give up all the datas in there just to have a healthy system.

Please help!!! Thank you very much!

Kan
 
Well just reformat ur hard drive then. If the cd drive dont work i think u can create ur own boot disc from a floppy, if u have a floppy drive. Might be wrong though
 
Post a hijackthis log--hopefully we can see something

(actually I'm not sure what Hijackthis is, but is shows some files, with which virus info can be found. I think.)
 
yeah, ur right, i use hiJackthis often, it shows entires that contain malware, viruses, adware, stuff like that i think lol. also he should run a Active Scan, the Panda Online Scan.
 
some viruses and trojans can be removed manually if an anti-virus program cannot clean/remove it. Sometimes it is just simply deleting the virus, others are deleting the virus and changing some files around...and yet others do require more drastic measures.

I suggest finding the name of the virus, or trojan, and googling it, and see wut pops up before you delete everything.
 
this might work, take the computer off the network, just unplug the ethernet cable, out from the back of you rcomputer, and run your anti-virus programs, and delete everything it finds, that might work. not sure.
 
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