Nasty Virus

Sailor Steve · 04-24-11, 01:31 PM

I downloaded the wrong thing this morning, and my computer is paying for it. First it installed one of those "Your computer has problems. We can fix them" messages, which took me forever to get rid of. Now all my desktop work and icons are gone, but if I try to make a new shortcut for, say Explorer, it asks me if I want to replace the old one. But the old one is gone, or at least I can't see it. Now I've found that my 'Favorites' folder is empty. But when I tried to set Subsim as a favorite again it told me that it can't because it's already there. But I can't see it.

A System Restore didn't change anything. Also missing is all my Ship Names works since February.

Any ideas beyond simply recreating everything?

04-24-11, 01:31 PM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Nasty Virus I downloaded the wrong thing this morning, and my computer is paying for it. First it installed one of those "Your computer has problems. We can fix them" messages, which took me forever to get rid of. Now all my desktop work and icons are gone, but if I try to make a new shortcut for, say Explorer, it asks me if I want to replace the old one. But the old one is gone, or at least I can't see it. Now I've found that my 'Favorites' folder is empty. But when I tried to set Subsim as a favorite again it told me that it can't because it's already there. But I can't see it. A System Restore didn't change anything. Also missing is all my Ship Names works since February. Any ideas beyond simply recreating everything? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo