Corrupt/unreadable errors on my Vista latop related to IE, YIM and

[Ryan]

I think it all started when I was talking on my MSN Messenger on my Vista
laptop and all of a sudden it logged me out in midconversation and then I
logged back in. The next day I started to get "Corrupt or unreadable file"
messages in C: (hard drive) that said YahooMessenger.exe and another exe for
AIM and yet another one for IE. I'm giving up on IE and switching to Mozilla
(no error message that I've seen).

BUT I want to clear up these corrupt/unreadable file error messages. I
uninstalled YIM and AIM and voila, no messages. But when I reinstalled them -
messages were back along with new corrupt/unread file messages for files I
don't know what they're about.



And I'm getting exception notices too. With strings of letters/numbers.



Oh and dskcheck just seizes up at 1 and 2 and 3 percent. And it runs every
bloody time I turn on the laptop. The error messages say I need to do it and
I WANT to but the thing just seizes up.



Is this a Vista glitch that they have a patch for? I'm hoping this all this
is.



Or do I need to download files from my recovery disk to write over the
corrupted files?

I read something XP related about going into Start and Run and typing sfc
/scannow but would that be relevant in Vista?



I'm still making payments on this laptop. I'd really love to have it last
longer than the loan. And I bought it because of stuff like this happening on
my XP desktop.



Any help here would be appreciated

 

[propman]

First thing I think of when I hear that the computer's owner has been
using MSN "wee nasty little beasties contamination" and then run virus
and malware checkers and do a drive cleanup; especially if the only
antivirus they have installed is Norton's.

 

[Ryan]

I have Windows LiveOne Care and I ran it shortly after. Is that better than
Norton's? Or worse? It said there were no wee little beasties although it
never says what it does find - and I find that annoying. It also did a drive
cleanup. It was that time of the month anyway.

I have only just IMed on MSN lately. No file sharing. No mysterious IMs from
known or unknown people. Just that shutoff one day. And then the error
messages the next.

I need an answer other than wee little beasties.

 

[Mick Murphy]

SFC works in Vista