Hi,
Last night I was just browsing the net normally, not installing anything, basically not touching anything at all on the PC apart from the web browser.
This morning I woke up to find my PC couldn't connect to any webpage at all but was in MSN perfectly.
I rebooted hoping it'd sort itself out but instead the PC took ages to start up, InstaAlert (a program that tells me when someone submits a support ticket) gave a Windows socket error, my username and password had been wiped from MSN (no, not a virus), PC Cillin gave some error but was running in the background fine.
It sounds very much like a virus, but I seriously doubt it is as I wasn't on any different sites last night, was just working on a website someone asked me to edit and browsing the usual forums etc.
So, I checked in the restore point (I did run Ad-aware last night - that only found cookies, but I thought it could have done something) and there was the usual "Software Distribution server 2.0" restore point that's taken every day by Windows, so I restored back to that (half past midnight last night, as in much earlier today). The restore went fine and rebooted, when the PC booted back up everything was perfect.
As I said, this does sound very much like a virus, but I do use PC Cillin 2006 - that updates itself every single day so I wouldn't have thought anything could get through that unless it was a brand new virus, but I still doubt it was a virus.
Any ideas please? It's all sorted now, but I'd really like to know what the hell happened?
Thanks,
Craig.
Last night I was just browsing the net normally, not installing anything, basically not touching anything at all on the PC apart from the web browser.
This morning I woke up to find my PC couldn't connect to any webpage at all but was in MSN perfectly.
I rebooted hoping it'd sort itself out but instead the PC took ages to start up, InstaAlert (a program that tells me when someone submits a support ticket) gave a Windows socket error, my username and password had been wiped from MSN (no, not a virus), PC Cillin gave some error but was running in the background fine.
It sounds very much like a virus, but I seriously doubt it is as I wasn't on any different sites last night, was just working on a website someone asked me to edit and browsing the usual forums etc.
So, I checked in the restore point (I did run Ad-aware last night - that only found cookies, but I thought it could have done something) and there was the usual "Software Distribution server 2.0" restore point that's taken every day by Windows, so I restored back to that (half past midnight last night, as in much earlier today). The restore went fine and rebooted, when the PC booted back up everything was perfect.
As I said, this does sound very much like a virus, but I do use PC Cillin 2006 - that updates itself every single day so I wouldn't have thought anything could get through that unless it was a brand new virus, but I still doubt it was a virus.
Any ideas please? It's all sorted now, but I'd really like to know what the hell happened?
Thanks,
Craig.
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