Virus Attack?

I believe I may have downloaded a virus and it's stopping me from running any other programs, esp. antivirus software. What can I do? Is there a way to get around this or what?

Really need help bad. Virus is blocking all my programs.

The easiest way to clean up virus infection is to plug your infected disk to another clean computer and scan/clean it from there. It's never a good idea to install anti virus on a compromised system, because virus/malware today is anti virus/anti malware aware, which either will block it's installation attempt, or the AV/AM most of the time will miss it in the scan process...

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Ya, I kind of found out. Anyways, I think I found a solution on my own. The virus is know as Antispyware Soft, which poses as an antispyware program, but actually blocks all your programs and antivirus attempts. I found a couple sites that talked about ways to handle it. I'll post the links for everyone else.

Remove Antispyware Soft, removal instructions

Antispyware Soft - how to remove

How to remove Antivirus Soft (Uninstall instructions) | My Anti Spyware

Hope this will help someone in the future.

Moochmaker said:

I believe I may have downloaded a virus and it's stopping me from running any other programs, esp. antivirus software. What can I do? Is there a way to get around this or what?

I'd be interested in what antivirus software you had prior to the infection.
It is always helpful to other in how your computer got infected.
By a download?
By saying yes to something?
Let us know.
Thanks

I won't say what I was downloading, but it was definitely an unsafe site. I have a couple anti-virus programs, Free AVG and Malwarebytes. Neither are constantly checking the computer so it is possible for a virus to get through and take over. Any recommendations on better anti-virus software or should I just be more careful and stick with what I got?