Sigh, did not need this.

[Iniamyen]

Well, the quarter ends, so God must think I need something to do because I just got a virus. Dropper.mimail....trojan horse of some sort.

I scanned with AVG and it healed what it could. Problem was, there were 2 files which were still infected in the windows folder. So, being an inexperienced idiot, I deleted them. Now, my computer is pretty much hosed. Windows will start, but nothing in the Windows folder will initialize. I have the desktop as normal, and I can browse the hard drive, but 50% of executables that i try to open give me the error "Windows cannot find ". So, I am pretty mad. If worse comes to worse, I can do a Windows format and reinstall, but who says that will even fix it? Please help me guys... TIA.

[bailey]

you should be able to do a reinstall repaire and it should fix everything and not loose anything.
you will need to reinstall the sp1 and any other updates you need too

[Panama Red]

Don't need to reformat. Just do an "over the top" repair with the XP disk

[Iniamyen]

What happens when Windows is done with the hour install and I have the same problems and the same virus after all? I'm sorry for being pessimistic but if there is less of a brute force way of removing this, I would really like to know.

[bailey]

if you did the virus scan and removed it there should be no problem, also the repaire only takes 30 min.
what do you have to loose by trying it