These symptoms ... what is the virus?

[TX2]

On starting Windows XP ....

Right clicking desktop results in no menu appearing.

Hovering mouse over Start Menu icons either starts the program
associated with that icon, or has put computer into Standby mode.

Starting MS Word 2002 results in several instances of Word starting,
and/or uncontrolled scrolling of page.

Now here's the interesting bit ....

Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL then allows PC to be used normally as if no virus
exists (does this action 'turn off' the virus?) Any action prior to
running task manager display the virus like symptoms.

in addition ....

Browsing to sites such as Google, Altavista etc fails (DNS error) yet
other web sites work perfectly. Symantec site is also affected.

AVG and NIS are installed on the system, both up-to-date, yet a full
scan on each detects no virus.

Have tried running F-Prot DOS based scanner, but of course, due to this
being XP, the scanner says files are in use and won't scan much beyond
pagefile.sys

Please help ... i think it may be qhost related, but what of the other
virus like activity?

 

[oldone]

Do a Qhost scan. Go to..
http;//software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html