My experience with teh Sality Virus

My mom gave me her friend's HP Netbook to tune up and install a few things like Adobe Flash Player

So I turned teh netbook on, only to notice that it is running super slow and in a very strange way, so I run task manager, nope "The task manager has been disabled by your admin"

I run regedit, same thing, services.msc, same thing.......

So I googled it, it was a virus........

right.......next I install Avira AntiVir, nope! the virus wouldn't allow Avira to install.......

so I decide to try NOD32, it installed just fine, as soon as it installed, I was welcomed by popups for every single EXE on the system, the whole system was infected by the SALITY virus according to NOD32, but unfortunately, no cure was possible

I googled a Sality Virus remover and tried it but no help........the virus has badly damaged the system.......

So I thought formatting was the only resort here.....

I run XP,,,,,,BSOD upon the setup screen,

mind u, the netbook has no CD/DVD Drive, I copied the installation files to my external HDD.

Was not able to successfully integrate the SATA driver for that specific laptop using nlite......

Install Vista? No way.....

the specs are:

HP Mini 2140 / 1.6 GHz. Intel Atom / 1 GB RAM

hmm....I think......let's try Windows 7 RTM.....

guess what? It installed perfectly, found aLL drivers out of the box, and the system was running super fast for its specs after turning off all extra visual effects / AERO

HAIL to teh Win 7!

It saved the day!

just wanted to share my experience with this Virus.......

 

Good job mate. You deserve a nice chocolate cookie

 

Thanks d00d, I will be expecting it in my mail then