Strange symptoms of Win 7. Possible infection or hacker???

Thanks to both of you for the replies.

I appreciate all the help all of you have given. I plan to format and reinstall as for me I think it will far easier to do. Then create an image.

Thanks again.

TableLeg said:

bobkn said:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/virus_venn_diagram.png

Am I missing something

How is that in any way useful?

Just a way of saying that most Windows problems are not the result of virus infections.

Not helpful in fixing your problem, other than suggesting that you don't spend a lot of time looking for viruses that probably aren't present.

Thanks to all.

Reinstall took no time at all, doing all of the updates however has taken many hours

2 images taken (clean install and then with all updates).

Job done.

Thanks again.