Ever since Norton, I have a nasty virus...

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Hello, all. I was running XP Pro 2002 for the longest time. I would get
hit by the occasional spyware, but Ad-Aware killed the few that slipped
by Black Ice Defender.

Then I set something up wrong in Black Ice and had to uninstall it,
after three years of smooth operation. Black Ice wouldn't let me
reinstall, it wanted me to repurchase (bastid's!). I got a
virus/spyware/whatever that deleted all my System Restore points, and
that was that.

I broke down and purchased Norton's antivirus and 2-year plan for $60.
Downloaded it from their site. Installed it.

It automatically installed a bunch of Windows updates. My system has
never been the same again. Norton will not complete a full system scan
ever, it crashes as it approaches 60,000 scanned items. What is more, I
literally got hit by a virus while norton was supposedly running. This
virus changes the system font to (I think) Wingdings, and then deletes
all your fonts in the fonts folder. What is more, it messed with IE at
some point, and now whenever you click a link that spawns a popup or
new window (or just hit CRTL-N), it freezes the IE window. You have to
then click the IE icon again and get a new one. A view of Task Manager
shows IEXPLORE.EXE a bunch of times (as many as you tried to spawn a
new window). You can close them via Task manager (End Process).

I think I have a messed up version of XP Pro that is somewhere between
2002 and SP1, along with a virus. Norton and AGV both find viruses,
including one called Proxy.GBN. Up until today, I was managing ok, it
would interfere with the internet connection (periodically taking it
down and back up again), which was annoying but livable, but today, I
can no longer connect to the internet at all. The adapter says it finds
the wireless network, good signal, I see packets sending out mostly, but
I can't get web, messengers, or anything at all.

NOW....

I have an SP1 disk, and I was going to install this from BOOT, but when
I boot the PC up with it, it starts with, "Setup is detecting your
hardware" or something like that. After awhile, it bluescreens and
reboots in a split second.

???

I want to just reinstall windows. It won't let me! I cant get on the
net anymore either. :( Help!

-JA




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Suleeto
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