ok i'm on my friend's pc.  if any of you read my older pc, a few days ago, something happened to it and now i get a blank screen.  i'm suppose to start it up in Safe Mode and give it enough time to see if it does or doesn't.

anyways, i'm using my friend's pc here and everything was fine.  i only downloaded this secure shell client from my university's page, and then deleted all the icons it created, deleted the secure shell client, and then went under control panel, add/delete software and deleted it.  stupid i know, should've just went to delete it from the list first.
anyway, and then i ran Live Update on the Symantic Antivirus.  thing is, i exited out of that after it was done and lo and behold, there are ONLY THREE icons left on the desktop!  all my hws are gone, the shortcut to IE browser is gone, AIM's gone, IE Window thing is gone, all my scanned jpegs are gone, Dr Scheme is gone.  i mean, wth is going on here?!  
i'm so freaked out right now.  i right clicked on Symantic on the lower right corner... and uh it refuses to open up.  i restarted this thing twice.  
i'm getting beyond frustrated now.            
     
what am i tell my best friend NOW?!err, i just discovered it won't run Symantic Antivirus either.  i'll click exit for it, and it'll tell me that the program is not responding.
none of my scanned stuff or MS Word docs are here, it starts looking for 'em.  yet, i was able to search and find a few programs like MS Office.
what in *censored* would eat up all the icons like that?  Can you run the Trend Micro Housecall on-line anti-virus scanner using Internet Explorer?

I would notify your University of your findings.It sounds like you are infected with a virus... Do as Mac said, and maybe we can pull something together...

[glb]Flame[/glb]Mac--i've downloaded the ssclient before w/o any problems and had it on my pc.  
when i just turned this one on a few min's ago, Symantec displayed a LITTLE message box, only the message wouldn't load since it stopped responding.  so who knows what the notification was.
thought i'd try scanning c drive again with Sym. antivirus but now under Scan and  Scan computer, the only option is 'My Computer'.  there is no listing whatsoever of the C drive.
Mac--i will run that trend antivirus now and post the results.  thanks to both of you for help/suggestions.  
i'm so frustrated, when 2 pcs are going thru freak stuff within a week of each other,  ok, not any viruses found at all.  any other virusscans i should run?  
i was running the FREE Symantec Antivirus from their site, i had to terminate it halfway (had to go out for the day), it did detect 9 'threats' i think, and i saw something about 'Spyware.Marketscore', 'Adware.180search'. 'Adware.NDotNet', Sypware.Quicksearch, Adware.Minibug, Adware.Ezula.
so sounds like spyware, except what does Adware.Minibug mean?
I'll run it again and let it run thru this time, and copy n paste what it says here, if that is ok?  if not, RESPOND and let me know please.  here's what the free antivirus on Symantec website detected:

Virus Status: Infected!
Your computer is infected with at least one known threat.
 

 
 59935 files scanned, 10 file(s) infected on your disk drives.

 
 No viruses were detected in memory.

Your computer is infected with at least one known virus or Trojan horse.

Search for the name of the threat(s) listed below on the Symantec Security Response site for removal information.

Warning! The scan detected a virus that is active in your computer's memory.
The scan ended to prevent further infection.

You should shut down your computer immediately and restart it with an antivirus rescue disk or similar tool.



C:\WINDOWS\system32\okshook.dll is infected with Spyware.Marketscore  
C:\WINDOWS\system32\osmim.dll is infected with Spyware.Marketscore  
C:\WINDOWS\system32\saie321.dll is infected with Adware.180Search  
C:\WINDOWS\iLookup\ezStub22.exe is infected with Adware.Ezula  
C:\Program Files\FileSubmit\Fireplace Deluxe\NNEZTA388.exe is infected with Adware.NDotNet  
C:\Program Files\FileSubmit\Fireplace Deluxe\TBEZA127Q.exe is infected with Spyware.QuickSearch  
C:\Program Files\AWS\WeatherBug\MiniBugTransporter.dll is infected with Adware.Minibug  
C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\W8NNEXPG\woinstall[1].exe is infected with Adware.Ezula  
C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\MMGU88S0\eZinstall[1].exe is infected with Adware.Ezula  
C:\Documents and Settings\j\Local Settings\Temp\42odhr0b.exe is infected with Adware.FavoriteMan  


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note: i tried copy n pasting this directly and it pasted stuff that the original page didn't say.  weird.  i edited it and above is what i see.  any tips?

You should first get rid of any adware, spyware or viruses found.
You may also like to do a google search for "shelliconcache" for later on.That is some infection you have there. I missed as to which OS this is.

I like Trend Micro http://housecall.antivirus.com

And hate having an exclusion list in 'some other antivirus programs'. So make SURE you don't have any exclusions listed.

Another good tool from Trend is SysClean http://www.trendmicro.com/download/tsc.asp

And I always to this...

In Internet Explorer, Tools, IE Options, Advanced, Uncheck:

"Activate install on demand" [Other] , and, "Activate install on demand" [Internet Explorer]