Major issue with laptop, possible virus? can anyone help me?

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Hi, I am hoping someone can please help me? last night my laptop was fine, this morning as I turned it on, the finger print login icon was missing from the login screen, so had to login with my password.

After I logged in, I was instantly welcomed with a load of errors, they are:

igfxtray module has stopped working
windows media player network sharing service config app has stopped working
igfxhk has stopped
igfxem has stopped

so I closed all them. I have since realised that anytime I try to open control panel I get an error saying - this application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

so it doesn't seem to be allowing me into the control panel.
when I click ok I then get an error saying windows explorer has stopped working, then I have to restart it.

I instantly thought, I will do a virus scan wth my bitdefender total security, when I load it up it says there are critical issues to fix, when I try to fix them, it says my on access scanning is disabled, when I try to enable or fix this, it says failed and stays disabled, it also wont let me do a general virus scan in the application (great security ey) lol

firefox will not open at all which is what I use 99% of the time, every time I try and load it, nothing at all happens, although I can use internet explorer, which is how I am writing this now, from here I have downloaded and installed malware bytes and Kaspersky virus scanner. malware bytes says there are no issues on my laptop, but Kaspersky says there are issues but when I click fix, nothing at all happens.

another issue is when I open windows update, it shows with a red cross as if its disabled, when I try and search for updates, it just says windows cannot search for updates.

I am using widows 7.

Can anyone help me please, I really have no idea how this has happened, I have tried everything I can think of, but cannot do much more without help.

Thanks

James
 
There are a multitude of issues there and for me the most telling of it being at least partially virus related is the fact you can't get into the control panel!

I'm sure there are solutions involving booting into safe mode, running various anti-virus/anti-malware programs and using Windows restore back to a point in the past but if it were me I'd simply reinstall Windows!
 
Backup everything that you can (probably using a linux live CD to do so considering the state of the OS at the moment), nuke it from orbit and re-install the OS.

Considering how much is going wrong, a clean sheet is the best way to sort it out.
 
My instinct at the moment says this isn't actually virus related.

Not being able to get into the control panel isn't a reliable indicator TBQH.
If you can post what Kapersky & Bitdefender are finding, then we'll have a much better idea of what's what. (Screenshots are good if you can get them)
I have a strong suspicion that most of what Bitdefender is complaining about is that it can't enable itself properly :)
Similarly, I suspect that Kapersky is probably 'finding' Bitdefender and detecting it as a virus. (This is why you shouldn't have multiple antivirus programs installed at once)

Being that it's a laptop, at the moment my first instinct is hardware failure, probably a dying HDD.
Nothing here springs out at me as being obviously virus related, and it feels much more like a corrupt Windows install...

-Leezer-
 
Symptoms appear rather random for it to be an infection - I would suggest running memtest and checking the hard disk with a manufacturers diagnostic disk before doing anything else.

Then perhaps try running a kaspersky rescue cd and see what that turns up.
 
Can you manage to open a command prompt as administrator? If so try running the system file checker by entering sfc /scannow and reboot once finished.

Running Memtest as mentioned above is also a good shout.
 
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