Incorrect parameter when trying to access hdd
 

Last night my idiot friend sent me a link via AIM and I clicked on it. It however installed some bullshit spyware program on my computer and it started acting really funny. Eventually I got the computer to calm down enough for me to get on the internet and figure out what happened. Apparently I installed this 180 Search Assistant thing along with a bunch of other crap and a program tilted pokapoka70. After hours of searching downloading and fixing I got rid of all the problems...atleast I thought so. I turned my computer back on today and everything seems to be in working order, however whenever I try to access my second hdd i get a windows error reading "Drive F:\ Incorrect Paramters" and it fails to access the drive. However windows recongnizes it. I tried to access the drive thru command prompt and I was successful, but a dir command revealed nothing, no files no nothing, it just went down to the next command line. I typed in chkdsk and that did nothing as well.

Anyone have any clue as to what I did? or what this virus/spyware/malware/whateveryoucallit is? or how I can fix it? the info on the drive really isnt that important but regardless I would like to have it. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Specs:
XP Pro SP2
P4 2.5ghz
512MB
HDD1: Western Digital 60gb (correct label in device manger)
HDD2: Maxtor 160gb (drive in question: Funky device name in device manger, not normal)

Uhhhh, how did you "fix" the problem?

I ran a few fixes i found on the internet including but not limited to Ad Aware, Spybot, ewido security suite and another program I had to run in safemode to get rid of the malicious stuff. Everything I ran seemed to work and it removed all the bad stuff, just now I cant access my F:\ drive

Ok, i guess we can cancel this thread....i ran AVG and it found a few more bugs and got rid of them, i restarted and it works great now. Weird

Probably the AIM virus that propogates Trojan.ByteVerify. It went crazy over AIM the last week or so, and I was getting 10 or so "links" every day. The problem is that far too many people click links and open the files without even thinking about it.

That said, you're likely still infected with the AIM variant.

http://www.jayloden.com/VirusClean.htm has the tool I sent to my friends to remove the virus..