Computer F'd Please help

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Something has happened to my computer which is causing problems using the internet. Periodically my browser will be unable to find sites like 2+2 or anywhere else. Currently MSN messanger can't connect. AVG is prementenly unable to get the latest update even when everything else is working and I can manually access the site. This all happened last night when somehow Norton Internet security was disabled for the entire night. Any Ideas what is going on?

[Dead]

Perhaps a worm.

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Perhaps a worm.

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That's what I am thinking, any ideas how to get rid of it?

[pshreck]

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Perhaps a worm.

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That's what I am thinking, any ideas how to get rid of it?

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Easiest way.... reformat.

[Boris]

I just had the same problem. download and run Ad-Aware SE Personal. It's free. I did a scan and everything seems to be working now. I have no idea why.

[Dead]

Download Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware.
Run them.


Google those names for the links.

And... don't listen to pshreck about this.

[TStoneMBD]

definitely a huge spyware/virus problem. youre pretty much fked at this point. try to get any some spyware/antivirus software, but it probably wont work. use system restore if possible, you wont have it for long. the same thing happened to me a few months ago. i think your best bet is to back up everything on your drive at this point, because its going down. i had to reinstall windows as the virus knocked everything out. it started out fairly harmless;

my internet would go down periodically, but would work again after a while or would work again with are restart

my virus shield would not open when i clicked on it

so i decided to reinstall my virus shield, and had to get a link from the internet. so i went to some sites like download.com and typed in "virus shield" in the search, and as soon as i clicked enter the browser would immediately close. there were several other trigger words that would autoclose my browser such as virus, spyware, firewall, norton, mcafee, etc. i couldnt go to any anti-virus site or search for anything antivirus related at any search engine.

i then tried using system restore but it wouldnt open on my computer. i finally figured out a way to use it (forgot how) and even though i restored to several months beforehand, it didnt do anything to help.

internet soon started to only work for 15 seconds after i turned on my computer, and then would immediately be disabled.

soon enough, my computer would crash as soon as windows loaded and couldnt even get into safe mode.

[Dead]

I don't think it's a virus.

[TStoneMBD]

it was definitely a virus that caused my problem, not spyware. what originally happened was that norton found a virus in svchost somehow, and could not delete it or repair it because its a major computer application. even after updates on norton i couldnt fix it. adaware, spybot and other antivirus utilities i downloaded off download.com didnt work. so i gave up and just hoped it wouldnt progress into anything severe.

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Download Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware.
Run them.


Google those names for the links.

And... don't listen to pshreck about this.

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Yah I have both and each time I run them I get 1 critical object which then gets removed.