ncl1994
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Disaster! I'm ashamed to say that I've been fooled by a virus. A trojan to be precise and it presented itself as a Microsoft AntiVirus product which was really very believable (for a virus that is!).
Now I think it started off as a download for an activeX control which I accepted but once I downloaded it my homepage turned to a 'AntiVirus 2008' program which looks like Vista's windows security centre. As soon as I saw that the toolbars were non-interactive images I knew I'd been scammed. It kept popping up asking me to download it because of some fake security problems. I reported this site to McAffee, my security peeps.
Later on my desktop background vanished to black and the next time I tried to access my control panel it took about thirty second to load and then for about one second the control panel's window is blank. I've tried to access control panel through run and it doesn't load. On the Start menu's control panel menu it comes up as (empty). This is what leads me to believe that it has been totally uninstalled or perhaps relocated.
So I need to know how to reset my vista control panel with all it's features (the only ones I think I can access at the moment are the Speech Recognition and the Acer Sync Centre ). Any ideas, however far out would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Now I think it started off as a download for an activeX control which I accepted but once I downloaded it my homepage turned to a 'AntiVirus 2008' program which looks like Vista's windows security centre. As soon as I saw that the toolbars were non-interactive images I knew I'd been scammed. It kept popping up asking me to download it because of some fake security problems. I reported this site to McAffee, my security peeps.
Later on my desktop background vanished to black and the next time I tried to access my control panel it took about thirty second to load and then for about one second the control panel's window is blank. I've tried to access control panel through run and it doesn't load. On the Start menu's control panel menu it comes up as (empty). This is what leads me to believe that it has been totally uninstalled or perhaps relocated.
So I need to know how to reset my vista control panel with all it's features (the only ones I think I can access at the moment are the Speech Recognition and the Acer Sync Centre ). Any ideas, however far out would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance