I recently DOWNLOADED a version of flashplayer (flash_player_v10.exe and im almost 100% sure that it was a virus. My Norton Anti-Virus detected many viruses and removed them, however I believe the virus is still on my COMPUTER. A day later, I found that my sound icon was missing from the bottom right hand corner. I investigated further and found that the Audio and Sound DEVICES tab(control panel) had no audio device registered and I could not play sounds, or adjust volume for my audio device. Under device manager I have Conexant AC- Link Audio as the device which is enabled along with all the other devices. However, I think the problem lies elsewhere. I also ran DXDIAG in run which gave me a system diagnosis which gave me the following errors.DirectSound TEST results: Failure at step 3
(DirectSoundCreate): HRESULT = 0x88780032 (error CODE)and DirectMusic test results: Failure at step 6 (Activating the IDirectMusicPort): HRESULT = 0x88780032 (error code)
Which leads me to believe that my Microsoft Synthesizer is coruppt? I have tried everything so please help me out here.
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