I recently bought a computer
AMD Athlon 64-bit 3200+
Asus K8v se Deluxe
Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM
Ati radeon 9800 pro 256mb videocard
and 1.28 or so GB RAM...

My computer was working fine for about 3 weeks and then on day when i installed mcafee virus scan it found 2 viruses and it quarintined them.. after that my computer doesnt let me run anything.. when i CLICK on an icon or a program of even my computer is says could not be found please search and find this file...... the only thing that works is the browser (i typed in a url into the run box)... could this be because of the viruses that were deleteD? or is a setting set wrong all i know is i need an answer.. this is killing meWhat operating system is installed?

If it is XP I suggest you boot with the XP disk inserted and use the "repair option"

Make sure your antivirus is updated and scan again.  Download the many free scanners for spy/adware as well and run those if you can.

Will your apps WORK in safe mode?i hav XP.....
here is what happened.. one of the quartined files werent actually infected with a virus. mcafee just deleted it.... i restored it and it worked....
and today when i was searching spyware i deleted a few things and when i rebooted  and i clicked on an app it says
"This file does not hav a file associated with it running" or something like that...(im so angry .. it worked but now its broken..)

p.s. my spyware remover has a restore point thingy but i cant access it because it wont let me run anything but my browser (i explained earlier how i got in)
 thnx

and another thing.. i recently found out it might be a virus in the files SVCHOST.EXE and SMSSNY.EXE in C:\windows (these files are what start programs and folders etc. .... is there anywhere i can re-download these files to clean the virus?http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ - Trend Micro- Free online virus scan

You may be able to run this from your browser.

I suggest you use the repair function whilst booting from the XP CD once you have scanned for viruses.I tried mcafee and housetrend scanner
in mcafee SMSSNY.EXE and SVCHOST.EXE were infected with w32/[email protected]
with housetrend it also showed these files infected... these are critical system files and i cant clean them (they are uncleanable) and i cant delete them because they are NEEDED files lol what do i do now?

p.s. i am NOT going to reinstall windows xpJust as I was about to force you to reinstall XP...

I never mentioned ANYWHERE that you should reinstall Xp. Repairing and reinstalling are two different things. They may not be different to you, but they certainly are different to me.

I suggest you boot into safemode and use a (Professional) virus scanner from there with the latest updates.

I donot know what kind of Mcafee scanner you are using, I am not aware of free Mcafee editions, but if you are using a free edition I suggest you replace it.ok number 1) i know u didnt say to reinstall windows... i am just saying with my new problems that no matter what it MIGHT lead to i dont want to reinstall windows
2) i had mcafee viruscan v8.0 and it found the virus.. but then some reason it went berserk so i uninstalled it from my pc...
3) the mcafee free scanner i found at their website
4) safe mode has the same effects as it does in regular mode.. so safemode does not help me at all in this case...

sad 2 say this might be a huge problem and one more thing... if you cant solve the problem at least help me access one program (SpyBot Search and Destroy) all i need to do is hit undo and recover .. and then i can finish the rest myself... so mainly all i  really need is access to that program (even though a solution to the whole problem would be nice)ok... im going 2 explain EVERYTHING from the beggning lol... because i keep talking about stuff u might not know about.. so here it goes

1)Installed virusscan v8 Mcafee
2) detected torvil virus in svchost.exe and in smssny.exe in C:\Windows
3)deleted both of the files
4) i could not run any applications.... ( as i explained in first post on this topic)
5)i returned the 2 infected files back into WINDOWS.... and everything worked fine..
6) ran spybot search and destroy... found spyware and deleted it... and Set a restore point...
7) couldnt run applications again.. like in beginning

now all i need is to run spybot and i can restore what i deleted... after that i removing the worms is another problem that i can solve my self..

many thanksBoot from your Windows XP CD and run the repair option.
i just found out another thing to my problem lol...
i cant run exe's .... i can only run the files that exe's  make and read.. such as a .zip file i can open with winzip.. thats how i could start winzip.....that is how i started ie ,.. i typed in a url and it ran the url.. which launched ie.. hope this helps....
and i can launch all my programs from safe mode with command prompt

many thanks...
repair on xp cd didnt workYou could try to over-write Windows XP but I heavily doubt that will do you any good. You will not have to format, but I donot think your system will be as stable as it was before it was infected.

I doubt it was very stable back then, but you can try.

I donot know what you should do, either that or format. E-mail Microsoft technical support or phone them. Quote

p.s. i am NOT going to reinstall windows xp