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Originally Posted by Cam3ron36

I had insane battles with my computer after my friend downloaded a file with very malicious trojan programs attached... My computer got in a severe state of... Just completely being hopeless. I'd get error messages to reboot, the virus multiplied into 132 counts of infected files and any time I tried to reboot or restore it would prevent me by resetting my computer to prevent it.

Sounds awful.

Originally Posted by Cam3ron36

Tails offered a program to help and it did nothing and the reboots kept persiting and I eventually found a recovery system at startup and restored my computer to factory settings.

I hope the program he suggested was Malwarebytes. What was the recovery program? System restore?

Originally Posted by Cam3ron36

My computer has reverted back to IE 5 and that won't do and I hate ie altogether. I tried downloading several versions of chrome that I had before and they all give me the message that my operating system is not compatable when the system requirements clearly state that my pc is compatable. Same thing happened when I tried to get IE 8 and IE 7. There is also a game file I redownloaded that crashes on login every time and does the "Not Responding" thing I hate..... It worked fine before.

I want more of your system specs. How much RAM do you have?

Originally Posted by Cam3ron36

I have noticed many other changes with my computer it's almost like running on my 98 laptop we have... I can now move icons on the desktop wherever I want now which I couldn't before.... The programs would all align as far left no matter what before.

That is incredibly weird. You should be able to move around your desktop icons in the first place.

Originally Posted by Cam3ron36

I think I have an auto installed version of norton security 2004 now when I had AVG 9.0 before... Norton is being insanely annoying notifying me of scanning complete jibberish files all the time and asking to make exceptions or block 5 million programs all the time.

Uninstall Norton, it is bad cancer. Please do it immediately. My father had this on his laptop and couldn't get on the internet because Norton was firewall auto-blocking IE, AVG, and Chrome.

Originally Posted by Cam3ron36

Few things I'd like to know:

- What the heck changed
- Why am I told my operating system is not compatable with everything all od a sudden? It's the same computer (only thing I've successfully installed is java)
- Can I have some sort of free good AV program to have for the moment? (please provide links)

All of this is confusing and I really don't want to use IE 5, lol. I had 7 before since 8 sucked.

Help! My controller also won't register in java score but I think it's always been that way and my IE crashes with arcade oc even though I did install it.

I'll let you know if I resolve any of these when I do but for now please answer my questions

Here's probably what happened:
- You removed part of the virus and it affected system 32 files.
- Then everything was corrupt and working weird so you did a system restore.
- System restore did not find some of the priority files and just restored without them.
- Then your computer became even more messed up.

Ultimate solution: Do a complete fresh reformat.