I recently formatted & reinstalled windows XP home on a friend's PC. After reinstallation, we tried to install McAfee....but couldn't......because there was a strange window popup that said the system would shutdown, and even provided a backward-counter indicating how many seconds remained before shutdown. So after reboot, I googled the name on the offending box and it turned out to be caused by a virus. I can't remember the name that I put in the Google window, but the top hit identified a program caused by 3 possible viruses.....one of them being "sasser". Now here's my question: After formatting & reinstallation, is it possible for a virus to lurk somewhere in the system & then reinfect windows after reinstallation?
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