Your post has been really helpful and has solved my problem. Norton couldn't, so I am very grateful for your clear and straightforward instuctions. Thank you!

hello, i used the eiwo (sp?) virus deleter thing to get rid of the virus because i couldnt find my system32 folder . i was wondering tho, if u install lime wire again, how can u be sure it wont install the virus again?

edit: lol at my name, i just bashed my keyboard for a username, didnt realise what it siad so i dont mean to offend anyone

Thank you everybody that posted tips.

I found the file that contained all those zip files.
The file name that was messing up my computer was msmovies


Thank you again for relieving me from this nightmare.

let me test it

kjwihe

That all i bashed on my keyboard.... HI MY NAME IS KJWIHE!! hehehe

u gotta bash it with both hands lol

i bash my keyboard often to make up usernames, it was prolly my subconscience

Hello there, just wanna say a BIG THANX to BobbyNaini, thanks mate, u helped me to get rid of the virus.

just a remark - my one was called WINLOGI.EXE. Just so everyone knows

Cheers!

Funny thing is, even after searching every little spot of my Windows folder, I can't find my Task Manager. Its as if it was deleted entirely from my computer.

I think I'm going to simply reformat and start off fresh again and unfortunately, find another P2P downloader and hope I can steer clear of these problems.

EDIT: My (mostlikely shortterm) fix (I'm overly aware I've not fixed it, just hidden it. Basically lack of a better word I guess) was to go into Run > Msconfig > Startup and thats where I noticed that there where so many things that shouldn't be, but have been starting up when my system starts.

I ticked the ones that I suspected (possibly even things that aren't affected by this problem) off. They were the following:

221
svhostcs32
IMJPMIG
MsMovies
TINTSETP
TINTSETP
qttask
jusched

EDIT: Next problem, the 221 and svhostcs32 are very smartly coded. When I turned off the first ones, they doubled, I did it again, now I have four. After this, I suspect I'll have eight of them in my startup area.

EDIT: After large amount of consideration (popups saying many different problems have arisen and forced shutdowns), I've come to the decision I'ma reformat for sure.

I was wondering, are my downloaded files at all going to be affected by these problems and is there any way that I can install LW without having this happen and or can I eliminate the problem before it eliminates my Task Manager?

Why do LW allow this to come with the installation file?

First, thanks to everyone for all the help here.
For me it wasn't "winupdates" it was a file called
"MSMOVIES" located in the prefetch folder. Good luck.

didn't fit...maybe i'm too stupid...or did mistakes at translating from english to german...but wayne... i couldn't find any process that takes quite 100% of my CPU. next my taskmanager doesnt open anymore by hitting [Strg]+[Alt]+[Entf] (normal key combo for opening t.) and there's a program calld xz, i cant delete... whatever i do it's already there again =/... plz if anyone knows a solution (maybe in german too :] ) HELP ME...after kazaa now lime wire is going to mess up with my computer...(maybe it's a curse)

Its a virus, simple as that.

It also prevents you running Taskmgr.exe (Task manager) or regedit.exe (Registy editor)

Fisrtly in search your computer for msmovies.exe and delete it.

Then search for regedit.exe and run it.

Within regedit, highlight My Computer and click Edit/Find msmovies.exe It'll probably be in the C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch folder

Delete any entries which make reference to this file msmovies.exe

I have heard of a user who has had a similar problem with another file called winupdates.exe which again was a virus sitting in the memory designed to keep re-loading Limewire.

No doubt there will be more and with different names now, sooner or later.

The easiest way is to open task manager and if your computer wont run it search for taskmgr.exe, run it and try removing one task at a time, then close Limewire and give it 30 seconds to see if it re-loads before removing another task. This way you will identify the name of the offending program. Then look for this offending program in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch and other locations if it is not there. Then delete it.

See it's simple good old fashioned computer detection work, so all you Computer Geeks stop rattling on about JAVA updates, internet options and other bollocks that doesn't work but just sound complex and posh.

You can do this in safe mode if you desire but I didn't and it was ok and now problem free.

Alex Nisbet