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Well from the way my pc is acting, it's quite obvious I have a virus of some kind.
NOD32 isn't picking anything up and I can't open norton.

On startup I get a screen with a few characters and an okay button, thne when It loads it cannot open shortcuts and most programs don't open either (just displayed as "exe files" instead of programs)

I cant even use paint to do you some screenshots, incredibly frustrating.

What do you think would be the best way to go about irradicating this virus from my system baring in mind I have no idea what the hell it is, no idea where it came from and limited resources?

Running Xp sp2.
I have no idea how I got the virus, i'm running norton internet security 2006, nod 32, systemworks 06 and adaware. Plus I connect to the internet via a router.
I think it may have been the missus opening a dodgey email or one of my recent downloads (music mostly).
 
Oh dear, thats really not good is it.
Well does anyone have any ideas?

Like where to start to find out what this is.
Will a system restore work?
 
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Nope no luck in safe mode, I think its pretty much destroyed my registry and all the file extension associations or something.
Can't run any fixes reg file, inf files, exes nothing.
 
Well I reformatted, scanned it with nod32, which picked up a trojan after scanning for a second time. it won't pick anything up now.
Adaware didn't pick up anything.

This morning the same bloody problem happened, i'm not a happy chappy. :(

I can't run the command prompt to try what you suggested.

I've tried to run various registry fixes and stuff on it this time, gotten nowhere.
I was the last one to use the pc, I didn't open anything except mozilla and msn, hmm. Its been fine for the time it's been fixed.
 
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