Re: What's wrong with my computer?

Alistair Smythe wrote:

> I think that I am dealing with a worm or virus I want to get a second
> opinion. When my HP Pavilion 511w starts up, it takes a long time to load my
> settings ( 3 to 5 minutes ) while my desktop loads the cursur continues to
> show a hour glass. NT ON-Access scanner service has encountered an error and
> in the window it says that the virus scan online has expired.Then it brings
> up my dial up connection to access the internet. Once my connects to the
> internet thats my taskbar comes up and a internet explorer tries to go to
> this page WWW.sqwire.com/homepage comes up and says cannot find server.
> Another browser opens and say action canceled. My system is slow and my
> system idle process is constantly in the 78%. This has to be a virus! I
> don't want to reinstall the operating system unless I have to. Has anyone
> seen this before?

If you need a second opinion: Why not let online virus scanners of
e.g. Norton, McAfee, BitDefender and/or ... scan your system?
(And prepare for reinstall... check your data backups...;-)

Roy