Not Sure What's Happened - Everything Seems To Have Died

Dove1989 · 05-13-2009, 02:33 PM

My computer has gone awol (I'm currently on my fiance's). I got a virus yesterday - though I don't know what kind, it wanted to change my registry but I denied all changes - so I did a thorough Avast! virus scan but it took too long, the whole day so I had to cut it short. So today, I ran a shorter one and did it through Boot Up.

Well, it seemed to get stuck on the same file at 97%, so after several hours I restarted my computer and now, when I turn it on, there's an egg timer over the taskbar at the bottom and the start menu. None of the things in the little corner that are supposed to come up do, except for the time (both times I tried) and volume control (only the first time I tried).

The middle doesn't have an eggtimer but nothing will open, not even a simple .txt document. When I tried to open a .txt document all I got was an egg timer and nothing happened.

I don't know what to do :( :( :( I'm kinda hoping if I leave it off for a bit then when I turn it back on it'll be alright, but if it's not, how can I fix it? I can't open any virus checkers :(

My computer is XP by the way.

Ried · 05-17-2009, 12:02 PM

Hello Dove1989,

Please follow the instructions in our sticky topic New Instructions - Read This Before Posting for Malware Removal Help and post the requested logs in your next reply.

05-13-2009, 02:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dove1989 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Not Sure What's Happened - Everything Seems To Have Died My computer has gone awol (I'm currently on my fiance's). I got a virus yesterday - though I don't know what kind, it wanted to change my registry but I denied all changes - so I did a thorough Avast! virus scan but it took too long, the whole day so I had to cut it short. So today, I ran a shorter one and did it through Boot Up. Well, it seemed to get stuck on the same file at 97%, so after several hours I restarted my computer and now, when I turn it on, there's an egg timer over the taskbar at the bottom and the start menu. None of the things in the little corner that are supposed to come up do, except for the time (both times I tried) and volume control (only the first time I tried). The middle doesn't have an eggtimer but nothing will open, not even a simple .txt document. When I tried to open a .txt document all I got was an egg timer and nothing happened. I don't know what to do :( :( :( I'm kinda hoping if I leave it off for a bit then when I turn it back on it'll be alright, but if it's not, how can I fix it? I can't open any virus checkers :( My computer is XP by the way.

05-17-2009, 12:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ried Assistant Manager, TSF Academy; Moderator/Analyst Security Team Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 26,974 OS: WinXP and Vista	Re: Not Sure What's Happened - Everything Seems To Have Died Hello Dove1989, Please follow the instructions in our sticky topic New Instructions - Read This Before Posting for Malware Removal Help and post the requested logs in your next reply. __________________ Member of ASAP since 2005 Member of UNITE since 2006 "It is one life whether we spend it laughing or weeping." "Take the time to laugh--it is the music of the soul."