First post on this message board so please direct me to the right place if this isn't it.
In the past few weeks my pc has effectively gone downhill, and I'm thinking it's
probably a virus, but I need to know a)if it really is a virus or just some other
problem or b) how to remove the virus if there is one.
I'll describe what's up.
I do have a firewall, it is Zone Alarm Pro 2.6.357.
On my desktop, a few of the icons will not properly access a program.
Whenever I double click on one of these, I get an error message saying
that Windows Explorer has performed an illegal action and will shut down.
I have noticed that the only icons that do this are ones that were originally
on the computer when I first got it (Recycle Bin, My Computer, Internet
Explorer, etc...) Also, when I try to access any file on the C drive through the
find option on the start menu, i get the same error message that I mentioned
above. Also, before it wouldn't even open, Internet Explorer was having trouble
opening Java Applets. I tried to install a copy of java on to my computer but
the applets still would not work. I've looked on the "close program" dialog
box and the only thing that seemed suspicious was something called "winboot"
. I did a google search for a virus called winboot and the only information I
got was that there is such a virus but the only other thing mentioned was
that it was a trojan, specifically Vampire 1.2 Trojan.
In the past few weeks my pc has effectively gone downhill, and I'm thinking it's
probably a virus, but I need to know a)if it really is a virus or just some other
problem or b) how to remove the virus if there is one.
I'll describe what's up.
I do have a firewall, it is Zone Alarm Pro 2.6.357.
On my desktop, a few of the icons will not properly access a program.
Whenever I double click on one of these, I get an error message saying
that Windows Explorer has performed an illegal action and will shut down.
I have noticed that the only icons that do this are ones that were originally
on the computer when I first got it (Recycle Bin, My Computer, Internet
Explorer, etc...) Also, when I try to access any file on the C drive through the
find option on the start menu, i get the same error message that I mentioned
above. Also, before it wouldn't even open, Internet Explorer was having trouble
opening Java Applets. I tried to install a copy of java on to my computer but
the applets still would not work. I've looked on the "close program" dialog
box and the only thing that seemed suspicious was something called "winboot"
. I did a google search for a virus called winboot and the only information I
got was that there is such a virus but the only other thing mentioned was
that it was a trojan, specifically Vampire 1.2 Trojan.
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