I've just got back from my mates house who rung me up since he has a problem with his computer. He said he kept getting a load of error messages on start up when Windows began a scan on files, and when I saw the list it was a load of files in the Temp internet files folder, and after the list had been completed a BSOD came up and restarted the system. Skipping the scan lets me get into Windows, and then everything from there is fine. Now, I can't see what the message is on the BSOD as it keeps restarting instantly after it comes up, and I checked to make sure "auto restart" was unticked and it is, so it's not listening to that command. I looked in the folder where the files were, and by the file names either a virus has got them or the HDD has got it's self currupt. The file names just had random letters/numbers/symbols, like 48vhd-? etc. I tried to delete them and it said it couldn't read from the source file, and therefore cannot delete them.
I've done a virus scan with Avast totally updated, ran Spy Bot and Adaware, updated Windows fully and cleared the temp internet files folder (automatically and manually) which all have not worked. I can't run a full disk scan to scan for bad sectors as it always starts with the files, resulting in the currupt files and coming up with the BSOD again.
His system is running Windows 2000 Pro SP4.
Is there any way to get rid of these files? Has a virus infected the system or is the currupt files and the BSOD a sign of a dieing HDD?
Thanks!
