Newly installed programs simply disappear... Help!

From: Carygee (carygee_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:27:18 +0200

I'm onto something really very disturbing.

Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the new Quicken 2005. Worked like a
charm until this morning, that is, when the item was "greyed out" on the
Windows|Start list, ditto on the Start|All programs list and, worst of all,
eliminated from the D:\Program Files\Quicken folder in which it was
installed.

This has happened a number of times in the recent past: all my Adobe
Creative Suite CS applications were nixxed back in June 2004, Irfanview has
been nixxed repeatedly and reinstalled, etc.

Something awful must have crept into my system three months ago (I suspect
it was an mpeg file as I recall yesterday -- prior to having any Quicken
2005 problems -- a lot of disk activity occuring when trying to view an mpeg
file in Windows Media Player 9.0 Nothing showed up in the player but the HD
kept churning away). I have run Kaspersky AntiVirus repeatedly (reputedly
the best there is) and I come up with a clean bill of health.

I'm no Holmes but it seems that only the programs installed in D:\Program
Files\... have been affected (infected?)

How can I track down this varmit and annihilate the bugger?!

Oh dear, what could the matter be?

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