UnHackMe is a very good tool it's for finding and removing rootkits install it and have it check your system on reboot it will examine everything that try to load this has found rootkits for me that nothing else could even if it's not a rootkit it will show you what is loading one by one and will let you check info on that item just be careful with this you could remove the wrong thing none the less it's a great tool if you know what your doing
Pauly: It may be a dark friday but I am stuck at my parents house up in North Wales (hoping to travel back tomorrow), I was partial to Quay Club on Fridays, but I've not been in a while. That said, Cuba and Ride do sell B52's..............
Computerplus: I sometimes do run external HD's etc, I have tried disconnecting them, but this makes no difference.
UnHackMe seems to think that everything is fine, it didn't find anything.
Capt. Jack: Creating a new user didn't help. I was wondering if there is an online virus scanner that you would recommend?
Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated.
ESET has one that is pretty good also Kaspersky has one
You might wanna google it you'll find lot of them and they are free :)
I've tried a new virus checker which came up with nothing.
I've just booted up with only the MS services running, which seemed to allow the computer to run for a little longer (about enough time to open Chrome and load Facebook).
One time, I started the computer and told it to use the last known good settings, and I got a BSOD, I shall try last known good settings again to see if I get the same BSOD and will upload it.
I think I may just go with a clean install, now it seems to want to boot into Windows quite happily, but its like its going into the diagnostic startup, when I have set it to do a normal startup with all services etc enabled. It is loading all my other software, but no internet connectivity, no sound etc.
it sounds like you are suffering from file corruption try a full format and reinstall
I think at this point that would be the best option would be to do a Clean install make sure you install good virus protection like Microsoft Security Essentials and a Spyware Blaster for added security. Then start surfing the Internet
Good Luck,
Captain
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