oh lord man of great wisdom can you point me in the right direction as i am having spot of bother with a virus. i have spring cleaned my save folder as my spyware keep finding, blocking then removing a file each time i check for viruses. right now there is no files in my SAVE folder but when i check it with the properties tab there is 1,776 files in there using 395MB. yet the SAVE folder is empty. when serching further using the address bar i added \_\ and found all of these files but i can't find out how to remove them

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Apparently something (Virus? Trojan? Spy ware?) Is disabling my task manager, regedit and possibly more.

I have tried accessing task manager through ctr-alt-del, right click taskbar, run-taskmgr, and also running taskman.exe from the windows folder. From Run-taskmgr it says that another process is using it. Same with regedit, I get that it's used by another process. I'm positive it's not a group policy thing, as I'm the admin user on this machine. Also, in safe mode taskmgr and regedit DO work, so in safe mode the thing that is disabling them, is not running.

I think I may know where I got it. It created a hidden folder in my downloads folder, named \_\ (underscore), and in this folder was a file called xzxzxzxzxzxz.exe, that I tried to delete but after restart it was back. Now I uninstalled limewire and the file is gone. But the problem with taskmgr etc. being disabled is still there...

ETA: Aaaaaaand, it's back. Humph. I swear it wasn't there an hour ago. I NEED TO KILL THIS THING.

I've scanned with Norton Antivirus, Ad aware and Spybot S&D can't find anything.

Is there any way to remove it that does not include a full re-install?

xzxzxzxzxzxz.exe was created and modified on 16 March 2006 23:50:55

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Thank's o Lord I followed the links which took me to [url=http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm****** online antivirus. ActiveScan. Panda Software[/url] and all was made right again
Can't understand why my Norton and spybot didn't find the probs so thank's again

Not all AV's can detect all viruses unfortunately. Good to hear problem solved.