sungrove

Well, call me stupid, or just plain complacent. I had never had a virus attack a computer before, or at least that I knew about.

But this time, I had a pretty good idea I was in trouble. I made the mistake of trying to download files from Limewire.com. After attempting to install a couple of files, I noticed the computer became very slow.

Bottom line: Norton 09 fully updated had taken 50 hours so far scanning the computer. It says in it's dialogue box that over 15,000 viruses have been found. Or is that virus files? And there seems no end in sight. It just appears to be stuck scanning my windows/font/ ... file over and over again. It finds files named after movies and all kinds of things. It sickly even finds files named after anti-virus programs and security programs.

I'm willing to follow the advice about the malware software given in the stickies here at some point. But I just want to try to understand what is happening if anyone has some insight. That huge number of virus files makes me think this virus is self reproducing somehow. The virus really seemed to take over when I switched from my old brand to the Norton. Of course during that time I had no antivirus running.

Anyway, at what point should I just stop Norton and go with another plan?
One thing I wondered about too? Would it work to just remove any programs and files I want to keep onto an external harddrive and then start over with the original recovery disk so that basically I'm starting from scratch? Does that get rid of a virus or can the virus survive that ? I know, we don't know the virus, so how can we answer the question. I just want to come up with plan b and c right now before I do anything else. d


and norton churns away.....


thanks