Malware Problems & Solution

For the past few days, my PC back at home is behaving strangely. Well the first reason which comes to anyone's mind is of course virus. Well, yes it 's true it was infected by some malicious things . Blame should be put on me and only me for introducing my PC to this malicious thing. I am already done with the formatting and re-installation of Windows XP and was also done with installing the Norton Anti virus 2005 and then I observed the same strange things happening again. Let me write those things down here which led me to format my PC:

1. Every time I inserted my USB drive, virus alert would be generated that a file named M.exe has been removed from the drive. After this alert I would see an autorun.inf file which instructs to run M.exe from USB drive. Despite repeated formats of USB drive, the same problem surfaced again and again proving that it was the PC which was doing this to my USB drive.

2. The moment I would be connected to internet, I would get some hundreds of alerts from Norton AV's mail scan application that "your message to (somevague_emailid) has been scanned successfully. All these alerts would eventually slow down my system and I would have to kill ccApp.exe from Task Manager. I read few things about this ccApp.exe on some forums and thought this could be the culprit ( I am still not sure about it though)

All this led me to format my OS drive and reinstall the OS. After doing some more research on removal of this malicious things on PC, I came across D-A-L Free Computer Help link. Its tells about quite a long process of removing malwares from your PC, but looks quite good. I have not completed this process, but I am almost in the middle of it.

In case someone is facing similar problems, s/he may try this out and may be its of some help.

Cheers!
MoA