I'm sorry if I didn't put this in the right place, I wasn't sure if it would have been better here with the Windows Vista thread or the software one. Please forgive me, however, and I hope that this doesn't cause too much irritation.
But concerning my problem, originally, I thought I was dealing with the w32. sircam. worm@mm worm/virus.
And according to what help has been posted onto the net concerning it, I pulled up a forum that told one how to 'check and see'. I was a bit iffie about it considering it dealt with someone using Windows XP, but I was able to pull up Command Prompt in Safe Mode all the same and attempted to check with the steps that I had written down from the forum.
Alas, I didn't see the "%1" %* coding that gave away the sircam culprit. But like I said, I'm using Window's Vista instead of XP and I wasn't confident that the possibility had been completely excluded. So, I hooked back up my other tower and opted to copy down some of the errors that keep popping up and I noticed that the only things that WOULD come up (allowed usage of a program/browser) were random anti-virus programs.
I realize it was a bad idea to go ahead and click 'yes' and let them load, but when I realized that was the case, I went ahead and copied down the errors and held down the power button before anything could load. (Not saying it prevented anything, but there wasn't much else I could do.)
When I hooked up my older tower (of which I'm on now), I went ahead and googled some of the errors that kept popping up and I found some forums, including this one, that gave step by step of what one could do to remove the problem and set their computer straight. However, even though it seems easy enough to follow, I don't want to do anything without an educated opinion and a short run through of how I can do this on my own since I'm using Windows Vista and not Windows XP.
Can anyone help me?
My computer is a Desk-top HP Pavillion, it uses Windows Vista Home Premium/64-bit edition with the first Service Pack edition. It's only a little over a year old. It has 640 gigs of hard drive space and 6 gigs of system memory.
If do you need to know more about the system I use, please give me an idea (if you could) of where I could find/locate it.
