Need some help with my HDD!

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#1 Pitfiend23
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Hey guys,

I don't know if this is the right place to post this but it's been driving me nuts for the past 3 hours. I've tried Google to no avail.
Anyways, the issue is, I have a 1tb western digital my passport hdd. I think it got infected with a virus a month ago (didn't have an anti-virus installed at that point)..not too sure, but all that virus did was make a shortcut inside my harddisk and on clicking the shortcut it'd lead me to all my files and no problemo. I was busy with a lot of other stuff at that time so I didn't really get around to removing it since it wasn't causing any major problems.
Anyhow, so I just got myself Norton Internet Security 2 days ago and today as soon as I plugged in my harddisk Norton did what it does best...and I got a Norton has detected a Trojan followed by Norton has removed a Trojan followed by Norton has detected an infection followed by Norton has removed an infection followed by Your computer is now secure.
Well that's good right? NO! Now I can't access my harddisk! It still got that shortcut inside but now when I click it says " There was a problem starting ~$WARDZOXJ.nfc. The specified module can not be found".URGH!
My data's still there because the hard disk is still showing 280 gb free of 931 gb!!! I got loads of real important stuff in it...including some really old photos!!!
What to do? Anyone? Any help would be greatly appreciated! THANKS in advance!

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#2 Pitfiend23
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Hey guys, so I think I might have half figured out what the problem is. Seems like Norton removed the virus/trojan but some registry files are still left behind, If i could just find those rogue files and delete them? Would that help? Now the question would be...How to figure which are those files? and how would I delete them?

THANKS in advance for any help!

Could really use some!

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#3 Blistrax
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Norton should have an option to restore the files. It will sometimes flag things that aren't viruses, so it lets you undo whatever you want: Advanced / Computer Protection / Quarantine / Restore

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#4 JohnF111
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Go to Start and in run type "msconfig" and hit enter. Go to start up tab and see if that is on the list, if so then disable it. It's probably just a virus on your machine that uses USBs and network drives to spread, not necessarily on the drive itself.
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#5 EraofWar
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malwarebytes, spybot, and advanced system care 6 are great tools that i always use when cleaning up computers. I also use CCleaner to help with registry and such. other than that you could throw your harddrive into another computer with protection of course and just put yours as secondary and try grabbing files that way.
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#6 ScreamDream
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Download Malware Bytes at download.com and a root kit killer here http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/tdsskiller. Both free.

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#7 JimmyJumpy
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Make your hidden folders visible (open explorer, hit "tools" at the top, choose "folder options" and then the "view" tab. In that tab, hit "show hidden files and folders")

Then go to your profile folder (C/Users/your name) and check the "AppData" folder for anything related to ~$WARDZOXJ.nfc.  While you're there, empty the "Temp" folder.  The latter is often a place where this ~$WARDZOXJ.nfc could be sitting.