Virus? But which type?
My system (Win2K + all updates/service packs, Avast Home Edition & Sygate Firewall, Blueyonder 2meg BB) has run rock-steady without a hiccup for almost 2 years......................until last weekend.
I decided to do my twice-weekly run of 'Adaware SE Professional' and 'ASO' and when I clicked on the Adaware shortcut it vanished in front of my eyes. When I went to the location file where the application lives I clicked on the 'install' icon but got a message saying that the file was corrupt? No probs, I'll install it again from my backed-up CD version. I re-loaded the software and ran it but it didn't find anything, when I rebooted the Pc and clicked on the Adaware Icon it disappeared again and I got the same corruption message.
Not wishing to admit defeat I downloaded 'Stinger' and ran that - it found some problems and fixed them but when I restarted the Pc again the icon [Stinger] vanished. Also, after the boot up, I get an Avast message stating that it needs to restart as there is a problem.
I thought I might have the Rbot SU worm but when I follow the instructions to delete certain registry files they do not exist?
Any ideas folks?