Hi folks, my main pc is infected with
the boot.tidserv virus. The pc wont start up: it will show the Windows logo for
a while and then I get this blue screen. Starting up in "safe mode"
doesn't work. Al the boot.tidserv removal tools I find only work when you can
install the tool and have it starting up your PC. So…that doesn't work here.
There's Power Eraser that looks promising but that only works on the C drive which
means ..that you again need a PC that
starts up normally. There's Norton Recovery tool but that one needs the same
thing.
I put the C drive in an USB- enclosure and had
Norton check it: boot.tidserv is recognized but "left unchanged".
Booting with the XP installation
disc, going to the recovery environment and typing “ fixmbr” doesn't do the trick ( something that has been
unsuccessfully tried by many others ).
The safest thing to do would be getting rid of the boot.tidserv virus when the
drive is in an external enclosure(USB).
Question: is there a way you
can get Power Eraser to work on a drive you choose yourself? Or...is there
anything else out there that would do the trick? Strange that I read on this
site that the removal is easy while
it looks like nobody actually gets rid of it at all.
Brad