I think the virus has broken out on you tube. Read the link, Mike thansk for all your support,

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/02...-youtube-vids/

Yeah that may be it, as I saw you were a youtube user and had many videos.

My question is, were you accessing youtube and or playing youtube videos during the times we were fighting this battle?

If so and you do the repair install on the one not working get it back up, update all the tools then unplug the network cable and do our cleaning then we may can do it now.

Likely since it is getting some attention MalwareBytes and SAS are rushing to be the first to detect and clean. As well all AntiVirus vendors.

Mike

Well the desktop pc is mainly used for streaming videos to my big screen tv. The computer has been used to access a lot of video sites including youtube. I am thinking that even during this battle the site was visited along with others.

I have recently changed homes, and part of the problem is that I can't find windows cds or for that matter most of my software cds. I wonder if I can make a boot cd online for xp sp2

It does not need to be your disk. Do you have a friend to borrow one perhaps?

Mike

There should be another disclosure here, I just didnt change homes I have moved toa different city from east coast all the way to west coast, hence couldn't carry cds along with me and do not know many people in this new city. But I will find something for it

OK if you can get your hands on a XP CD then look at http://ubcd4win.com.

Do you think you can build this PE Boot disk?

If so it will boot Windows PE directly from the CD and run from a RAM drive.

Once booted if you have a good restore point then we can do a system restore.

This disk is an invaluable resource that could come in handy also in the future,

Mike