Okay, so a few days ago, my computer picked up something; my best guess is that whatever it is, it came from one of many zip files I downloaded for work within the last week.
(If you want know, I have an eMachine T2891 running Windows XP Pro and 1.5GB memory).
I started getting annoying pop-ups, so I set my pop-up blocker and the Internet Options Security control to the highest levels, still no change.
Then I started getting the most screwed up thing; when I would have several explorer pages open, and then shut one off, the screen would 鈥渂link鈥?and my Start and Taskbar would completely disappear! I can see the desktop pic under the still remaining page(s) that鈥檚 open. If I close the open pages, it only shows me my desktop picture, no icons of any sort. So then I have to do a hard shutdown and reboot the computer.
I鈥檝e always been running Norton, but it say鈥檚 nothings wrong - Bleeping thing!
I perused Yahoo Answers and found some tips in old postings. So I downloaded AVG (free one) and also, Avast! 4.7
I ran both of them (yes, at different times) and they both found all types of crap and fixed/deleted the items, but nothing they鈥檝e done has changed this particular problem.
*Also, on another note, related or not, but occurred in the same timeline, my Taskbar icons (when it鈥檚 visible) show one 鈥渆mpty space 鈥?in-between the other icons, when I right click on it, it shows its Norton Antivirus, but I鈥檒l be darned if I can get the icon to show.
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