There seems to be a virus on my computer, and from what I've seen, it seems to be very damaging and evasive. It's damaging because the only reason I knew I had it was that it shut off my computer, moreso, when I restarted it, it refused to run windows. Here's where the evasive part comes in, I've tried formatting the hard drive and removing/ re-creating partitions, and nothing seems to work, I get to the point just after the windows loading screen and it says:
While initiating device IOS: Error: An I/O subsystem driver failed to load either a file in the .iosvbsys subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low on memory.
Alright, I'm running (or trying to run) windows 98, and as for system specs, I've got 2.8GHz, 256Megs of RAM and a 40GB Hard drive, as well as the standard A: and a CD burner. Also, I've managed to deduce that what I have is probably a TSR virus that can avoid getting formatted by hiding in my RAM, this also inhibits my computer from loading windows because the virus clogs up most or all of the RAM. I was however, sucessful in formatting the pc, so the possibly infected windows files are gone.
I can't believe I actually fixed the problem, but that seems to be how it turned out. I'm not sure how exactly, I was swapping the "infected" pc's hd with another pc to try and see if the problem was indeed with the hd, the "infected hd seemed incompatible, but then I put it back in it's original pc and for some reason, it worked fine. I really can't say what it was that caused the problem, but I'd probably guess it was just loose wires. Btw, thanks for your time and have a great day.
