I've been running Limewire on my pc for the last 6 months and have just found a hidden folder (only viewable through MS-DOS) that contained about 20gb's random ZIP/RAR files. I managed to clear them all out however I'm noticing some important folders are unviewable through Windows Explorer particularly c:\windows\system32 which can only be seen when I perform a directory listing in DOS.
This really worries me as my internet bandwidth has been totally sapped in recent months and now I can barely even get on the web. Also I can't access my task manager so I can't see the many mountains of dodgy programs running in the background. Whatever this worm is its stopping me from viewing certain folders and viewing my task manager.
I've run AdWare on it, RegClean....everything I can think of. This is my last throw of the dice before I format and start from scratch.
If anyone has any suggestions or advice you'd be doing me a huge favour.
BTW - I'm running Windows XP on a pretty new Dell.....oh and I think I've deleted the last of limewire as well
Oh BTW I've run HJT in safemode and here the txt file
This really worries me as my internet bandwidth has been totally sapped in recent months and now I can barely even get on the web. Also I can't access my task manager so I can't see the many mountains of dodgy programs running in the background. Whatever this worm is its stopping me from viewing certain folders and viewing my task manager.
I've run AdWare on it, RegClean....everything I can think of. This is my last throw of the dice before I format and start from scratch.
If anyone has any suggestions or advice you'd be doing me a huge favour.
BTW - I'm running Windows XP on a pretty new Dell.....oh and I think I've deleted the last of limewire as well
Oh BTW I've run HJT in safemode and here the txt file