Terminator14
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This morning a program was stopped from accessing the internet by my firewall - explorer.exe located in my C:\Windows\System32 folder and after scanning the System32 folder (and eventually the entire computer) I found that 3 files were infected by a virus. The 3 files were explorer.exe, explorer.006 and explorer.007 all locaed in the system32 folder. The virus hid the system32 folder and the only way I could get to it was by typing the address in the Windows Explorer address bar.
I found someone with a similar problem on a forum and downloaded a reg file that made the system32 folder appear again. I also deleted the 3 files manually (from safe mode).
The problem is that after all that and what seems to be a virus free computer now my computer started acting weird. Things like firefox's download manager not recording any dowloads (see my post at :http://www.computerforum.com/53248-firefox-download-manager-problems.html#post392981 ), Spyware Doctor refusing to minimize or turn off although it was responding to everything else, and real player stopped opening completely without so much as an error message. I also recieved an error about 2 files that Norton Antivirus couldn't access (it's own files) because it had no rights to them.
Either the virus is still on my computer or it did some damage before I got rid of it. Anyone have a similar thing happen to them? What can I try? With so many random things going wrong I'm not even sure where to begin.
If I can't fix these problems I will probably just format my computer but it would be nice not to have to do something so drastic.
Thanks
I found someone with a similar problem on a forum and downloaded a reg file that made the system32 folder appear again. I also deleted the 3 files manually (from safe mode).
The problem is that after all that and what seems to be a virus free computer now my computer started acting weird. Things like firefox's download manager not recording any dowloads (see my post at :http://www.computerforum.com/53248-firefox-download-manager-problems.html#post392981 ), Spyware Doctor refusing to minimize or turn off although it was responding to everything else, and real player stopped opening completely without so much as an error message. I also recieved an error about 2 files that Norton Antivirus couldn't access (it's own files) because it had no rights to them.
Either the virus is still on my computer or it did some damage before I got rid of it. Anyone have a similar thing happen to them? What can I try? With so many random things going wrong I'm not even sure where to begin.
If I can't fix these problems I will probably just format my computer but it would be nice not to have to do something so drastic.
Thanks
