Hi everyone, I think my system has recently been infected by a virus, when I booted up today I found it working REALLY slowly, and several desktop icons popped up (you know, the average ad stuff) and hardly any of my backround programs would boot.
By chance I had an Ashampoo Uninstaller restore point to about a day earlier, and that deleted most of the stuff, except for a few key files, because I suspect they are in use
I installed PrevX 2.0 because I remember using a program by that name a while ago, but it turns out to be **** and evey few minuted keeps prompting me to buy the full version, although doing the system scan it found about 10 supposedly infected files ( most of them in the WINDOWS folder). Norton antivirus just crashes whenever I try to scan. I also found 2 versions of LSASS.exe running, one of them from my administrator account, but I dont think this is the sasser virus because so far it doesnt restart for no reason.
I'm trying to install CounterSpy, but it just comes up with
"The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed.
This can occur if you are running Windows in safe
mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly
installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance."
Also when I boot up the system it has started going
"Please wait....................................................................................."
With a blue screen, but after about 4 minutes it boots pretty normally.
Hope this is enough info, I really dont want to perform a full system restart, because Ive got a whole lot of stuff installed without the disk, so if I did I would have to wait 6 months basically without a computer
By chance I had an Ashampoo Uninstaller restore point to about a day earlier, and that deleted most of the stuff, except for a few key files, because I suspect they are in use
I installed PrevX 2.0 because I remember using a program by that name a while ago, but it turns out to be **** and evey few minuted keeps prompting me to buy the full version, although doing the system scan it found about 10 supposedly infected files ( most of them in the WINDOWS folder). Norton antivirus just crashes whenever I try to scan. I also found 2 versions of LSASS.exe running, one of them from my administrator account, but I dont think this is the sasser virus because so far it doesnt restart for no reason.
I'm trying to install CounterSpy, but it just comes up with
"The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed.
This can occur if you are running Windows in safe
mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly
installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance."
Also when I boot up the system it has started going
"Please wait....................................................................................."
With a blue screen, but after about 4 minutes it boots pretty normally.
Hope this is enough info, I really dont want to perform a full system restart, because Ive got a whole lot of stuff installed without the disk, so if I did I would have to wait 6 months basically without a computer