Quote Originally Posted by asj_india View Post
Oh right! I see. I crave pardon for what I spoke unwittingly in my ignorance. I bow to the two lord mod of this sub-forum
Actually I'm backing up my family videos, you know, taken over years, I just keep saving them on my hard disk, so it's a bit over 22 GB now. I don't have any external drive of that capacity.
I'll be grateful if you could tell me what do you diagnose the problem to be.
Yeesh, ok. At this point, you may wish to invest a few bucks in an external USB/Firewire/eSata hard drive as a backup method. External HDDs can and do fail so optical media backup once in a blue moon is a good thing, but all-in-all they can be very handy. Just something to think about.

Of course burning them to DVD would be a bit safer, but in order to do that you'll need to disinfect your system. In fact, you really shouldn't even be using it right now if you still have that trojan installed... If it's a rootkit you're going to be moderately hosed, those so called "rootkit removers" often don't work at all. Best thing you can try is obtain a good antivirus scanner, AVG makes a free one, and install/run each of the following: MS Defender, Ad-aware, and Spybot. Not guaranteed to work, but it might help. If you can at least get to the point where you can burn DVDs, then do so then blow away and reformat your system. I do not recommend that people attempt to disinfect and repair their systems after a particularly nasty trojan or rootkit.