I have a P3 866 MAchine with dual booting Win 2000 Proffesional Edition/Mandrake Linux 9.1 installed in it. 2 days back my Norton 2005 showed the virus Infosteal in a file c:\winnt\system32\xvid.dll which it marked as non-repairable. Reading a post by a fellow member i shut down NAV 2005 and started the online scan at
www.kaspersky.com. When it was 60% due to some power fluctuation the system shut down itself. It already had found out around 100 viruses by that time.
Then when i started the machine again i am not able to log into any user not even the administrator. As soon as i enter the password and press enter on the logon screen, first a screen "Loading your Personal Settings" comes and then "Saving your Settings" and the same logon screen comes back asking for user and password. I tried in the Safe mode as well but the same thing is happening. I am posting this using my laptop. Please let me how do i go about solving this on the Desktop. I think this is a virus problem. I got a similar problem on this site but the solution is paid..
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._21081553.html
help me !!