virus has struck Desktop

i conclude these symptoms to be a virus. the same symptoms this laptop had, now my desktop has it, except that i cannot use it at all. it wont click a darn thing. same exact keys that work on the laptop work on the desktop as well... needa give my cuz a call.... if anyone else is experiencing these things, please contact me...

all i went on the past two weeks was notebookreview.com...

its got something to do with WMP. when i opened WMP on my desktop, all windows froze... the laptop somehow gets by and can run with WMP alone... frick!!!

 

This is in the wrong section, but have you tried booting to safe mode? If not, see if you can boot to Safe Mode and do a system restore.

 

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You can check out 2 of the top antivirus programs:

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www.kaspersky.com

Hope this Helps

- Jordan

 

@j0rdy:

I'd suggest a good A/V, but it sounds as if DutyHunter wouldn't be able to install them with Windows locked down. My preference, Avast, has a great boot-time scanner, but it still has to be installed first.

 

true, the simplest thing might be to get a 'known' clean system, install a proper AV program on it; then attach said computer hard drives to it via USB or directly, and clean it right off

- Jordan

 

a system restore should do the trick.

 

I somehow suspect the poster wants/needs to retain information on those systems; if not however - yea, a system restored from the cds/dvd would do More than nicely

- Jordan

 

@j0rdy:

System Restore doesn't do anything to data...it just rolls back the system. Not necessarily 100% effective for virus cleanup, but it might do the trick.

 

My Bad - many a times I really wished they called the microsoft restore utility something different - I mean, it's just so uncomfortably similar the widely used restore cd phrase

- Jordan

 

maybe WMP is trying to search for all your media and to update itself and the listing. Does it clear up after a little while

 

ah thanks for all the responses! right now im on the desktop. another thing about this virus is that it sometimes lets my computer run normally. until i engage WMP.

and no, i dont think its doing an update or anything in WMP because everything else i command comes up, like the start menu and the task manager, but i cant click on them =(

i'll try a system rollback! i havnt been running with an antivirus program for two years. and one of my friend never had once since his second computer! he knows how to keep a system clean!

 

If the rollback doesn't fix the issue, allow me to recommend that you download Avast Home from http://www.avast.com/

Avast is free, and it has a very powerful boot-time scan (which it will do automatically after you install it) that should be able to clean your system out if the issue IS a virus.

You might also consider doing spyware scans. Spybot: Search & Destroy ( http://www.safer-networking.org/) and AdAware SE ( http://lavasoft.com/) are two excellent free programs that work great (if you run both, they also tend to catch items the other has missed, since not all programs classify spyware the same way).


It is certainly possible to run a system safely without an anti-virus/spyware program, but, with so many great free options out there (and with virus and malware distributors getting smarter in their attacks every day), it is a safety risk that should be avoided if at all possible.