Blinking desktop - virus?

TurnipHead · 24 Apr 2012 at 22:13

Ughh. Was playing WoW when everything decided to freeze.

Desktop is blinking and can't open anything. Can't open in safe mode. Can't open any anti-virus software to scan. When it blinks "explorer.exe" also blinks in the task manager.

So any ideas or am I screwed?

edit: it stopped blinking but still can't open any programmes.

TurnipHead · 24 Apr 2012 at 22:51

I tried Rkill which managed to stop the blinking so now I can get online. Although all the anti-virus/malware programmes won't open. And all the anti-virus/malware/spyware websites are down. Which I'm guessing is part of the virus.

TurnipHead · 24 Apr 2012 at 23:01

I'm doing that at the moment. Any good ones you can suggest?

TurnipHead · 24 Apr 2012 at 23:34

MalwareBytes won't open.
Ad-aware crashes instantly.
AVG scans the whole computer in under 2 seconds and says it's safe.
Avast causes me to bluescreen.

All the websites are down on my computer. But working on my laptop.

TurnipHead · 25 Apr 2012 at 00:09

Got Avast working. It's picked up 1 infected file so far. I may just reformat if this don't work. I backed everything up recently.

Only pain is reinstalling/downloading WoW. Sigh.

TurnipHead · 25 Apr 2012 at 00:37

Scanned and deleted these

Seems ok for now.. I can open Ad-aware and AVG now so scanning with them.

Edit: Sigh, everythings going slow. Can't open any programmes still. Skype/WoW/photoshop..