Partitions/formating disappearing, DLLs corrupted

[4Tran]

Hi. I've been having big problems with system ( WIN2000). Not sure but it's a 'bad' guy. (Adaware, Spybot , Norton antiV and MS's malware prgm say; 'can't find') Twice I've had my D,E & F partitions, just get wiped out of my WD 250GB drive. Since my 30GB 'C' was alive, I was able to limp along. This second time I used the recovery console to partition & format my D,E & F back into existence.

Shortly after, My 'C' got unformatted. Fortunately, Ghost worked for me. Just after that while copying a DVD I saw that everything but the background screen and the window of the program doing the copying were gone. Could not restart system. My note is a little unclear here but I think message was about the 'Ntoskrnl.exe'. Anyway, I reGhosted.

Not positive on the first couple, but crashes seem to be when attempting to record a DVD. Anyway some Google research and I started to pursue using SFC. But when I went to registry: HLM\ Soft \MS \Win NT\ CV \Winlogon , I found that SFCScan was NOT there. Can this be correct?

Also the first entry under ...SOFTWARE \ Microsoft was the following; ` fg!* (with the space between ` and f being the graphic image of a square box ( which I do not know how to produce)) . Has anyone seen this? Is this a rat, a glitch? I deleted it, but I would be curious if anyone had come across it before. It had no 'set value' but a second line had about a 10 - 12 character Alpha/numeric value.

This is a little deep for me. Any help appreciated.

[cluberti]

No offense, but I'd say that box either is currently compromised, or was in the past. You could chase this down, but flattening and rebuilding from scratch is probably the best troubleshooting tool at the moment (after rebuilding, installing A/V and firewall, does the problem still occur?) - since you have a ghost image, it should be something you can do safely without losing too much.