I PROBABLY POSTED THIS IN WRONG FORUM - SORRY. NOT SURE HOW or IF ITS PROPER FORUM ETIQUETTE TO TRY AND MOVE OR DELETE.
I need help all the way around, apparently....
using windows xp media and mozilla firefox. have norton antivirus, use zonealarm and ad-aware. about 2 weeks ago, wife accidentally allowed some crap to get in (Personal Antivirus was the name - it looked like AV program, so she clicked OK). with my limited skills, i made it go away. probably not permanently, but appeared to be gone.
well, today we had several porn icons pop up on wife and my desktops, and a splash screen popping up continuously looking like windows protection center screen. could not turn it off for longer than 5 or 10 seconds. had to explore/search, found a couple of folders where it was hiding (was called Protection System, had an exe file "wscsvc.exe" that was primary culprit, as far as i could tell), changed file extensions by adding an alpha, and was finally able to get it to stop. had difficulty running norton anti-virus, when i finally did get it to run, it found a couple of viruses, said it cleaned them, then said i needed to restart. upon restart, and ever since then, i get continuous "..... - BAD IMAGE" alerts, saying "....not a valid windows image, check installation diskette". apart from that, the programs appear to work fine, after clicking on "OK"
i have a cold/sore throat, and this is upsetting me. have a gazillion pics of kids on drive, which aren't backed up (I KNOW, I'M Stupid and/or lazy), but now i'm in trouble. i have downloaded Hijack this program, although am scared to use it.
PLEASE HELP, SUPERMAN.
