ComboFix made itself as root drive?

Hi all--like a moron, I tried to run ComboFix just for grins. I had Trend's OfficeScan running at the same time, and I didn't let ComboFix complete because I was really only using it to download Microsoft's recover console. I know, I know, really big mistake. Anyway--when I use the Explore function from Windows XP, Combofix now shows up as a "subdirectory" of my C: drive. The icon is the "My Computer" icon and, for all intents and purposes it looks like this "directory" is actually a complete mirror of my entire C: drive.

A very few things are messed up at this point: 1) The search function now runs endlessly and returns about 10 results for every file actually found; 2) Windows Update can no longer apply all of the Office patches, and the Office repair function doesn't work properly (for what it's worth, the installation log shows "Chained install return code: 1635"; 3) Windows Restore no longer restores to an earlier save point (even well before ComboFix was partially run).

Any help for this would be appreciated, although I confess I'm not expecting miracles nor do I deserve them.

--Mark:confused

 

Hi Tim--Also like a moron (more because I forgot), I ran ComboFix from a directory with my "My Documents" folder. Should I run the uninstall from my desktop? Run it from within My Documents? Or just give up and remind myself that I re-learned a valuable lesson? Thanks!

Best,
Mark

 

All righty. I'll give it a try! Let you know how it works probably tomorrow. Have imaged my HDD as it is just in case...

 

Hi Tim--yeah, I know it's simple. But since this is my work computer (you dont think I'd mess around on my *home* computer, do you?) I first have to make a UBCD4Win boot disk because I can't stop Trend OfficeScan--it's password-protected. After I do that, I think I'm going to re-image my drive because the last image is already a few days old. Since that will take a couple of hours I'm going to do it when I get home tonight. Stay tuned!

Best,
Mark

 

Oops, forgot that I can disable my anti-virus program from msconfig. So I'll do it that way, won't need a boot disk but I still want to re-image my drive.

 

Woo-hoo! It worked! Thanks a million!!