Hi All,
Well I have bitten the bullet and decided to ask for help! Usually i can sort most problems out.
I'm not sure whether I have a virus or not.
I installed some software and since then I have had a few problems, I'm not convinced its a coincidence, lol. I installed officedock, and works perfectly. Got the software from a mate who has it on their PC and has no problems.
Any way the problem is when i click the shortcut [on desktop, startbar etc]for firefox, it tells me the application is not found [e.g link broken]. So i went to the installation folder and the .exe for firefox is not there. Strange. So i reinstalled it. It works. I run AVG, windows defender. AVG finds some threats, and i delete these, windows defender finds nowt.
So i click on outlook to view my mails. Vista says it cant find a MSVCR80.dll file. So i click word, doesnt work, but just says it wont load.
I repair office from control panel and now works.
I click firefox, the shortcut dont work! So i check the installation folder and the .exe is not there! OMG!
So i reinstall firefox, it works. Coincidently the personal settings and bookmarks etc are all still in the firefox folder.
Another problem is that, now when i go to play a avi file it just plays sounds! So i think somewhere codec has been deleted. I installed the vista codec pack and divx and all worked again. Then last night i tried and the player couldnt load the correct codec to show video!
This keeps happening, and each time i run AVG or defender it finds nowt. Tonight i will be running CCleaner, Bitdefender and Malware Bytes Anti-Malware later tonight, along with a hijack this report.
Any way, any one heard of a virus which deletes firefox and perhaps deletes .dll files for Office??? Seems rather strange, i would have thought a virus would want to do more damage [ i suppose it may have done, i just havent found what] haha.
I dont really want to be re-installing vista, but wondered if any one had any advice etc? And not just, reinstall XP instead of Vista.
Cheers
Si
Well I have bitten the bullet and decided to ask for help! Usually i can sort most problems out.
I'm not sure whether I have a virus or not.
I installed some software and since then I have had a few problems, I'm not convinced its a coincidence, lol. I installed officedock, and works perfectly. Got the software from a mate who has it on their PC and has no problems.
Any way the problem is when i click the shortcut [on desktop, startbar etc]for firefox, it tells me the application is not found [e.g link broken]. So i went to the installation folder and the .exe for firefox is not there. Strange. So i reinstalled it. It works. I run AVG, windows defender. AVG finds some threats, and i delete these, windows defender finds nowt.
So i click on outlook to view my mails. Vista says it cant find a MSVCR80.dll file. So i click word, doesnt work, but just says it wont load.
I repair office from control panel and now works.
I click firefox, the shortcut dont work! So i check the installation folder and the .exe is not there! OMG!
So i reinstall firefox, it works. Coincidently the personal settings and bookmarks etc are all still in the firefox folder.
Another problem is that, now when i go to play a avi file it just plays sounds! So i think somewhere codec has been deleted. I installed the vista codec pack and divx and all worked again. Then last night i tried and the player couldnt load the correct codec to show video!
This keeps happening, and each time i run AVG or defender it finds nowt. Tonight i will be running CCleaner, Bitdefender and Malware Bytes Anti-Malware later tonight, along with a hijack this report.
Any way, any one heard of a virus which deletes firefox and perhaps deletes .dll files for Office??? Seems rather strange, i would have thought a virus would want to do more damage [ i suppose it may have done, i just havent found what] haha.
I dont really want to be re-installing vista, but wondered if any one had any advice etc? And not just, reinstall XP instead of Vista.
Cheers
Si