J
Joseph
Just had the strangest thing happen to me in 20+ years
of computing.
Office 2000 Current on all SP releases/patches.
Word 2003. Pentium 4 running XP Home. 1 GB RAM.
Took a break from working on a Word doc today
(closed the doc and then exited Word) for lunch.
After lunch, I started to resume working on my doc.
Started to click on 2003 desktop icon when
I realized it wasn't there. Say what? Where did it go?
Attempted to launch Word from > Start > Programs.
Word wasn't there.
Ran > Start > Search searching for "winword.exe".
No hit!! Word has disappeared. I did get a hit on
my "D" backup drive (I have a separate 60 GB hard
dedicated to quick & easy backup/restore.) but it
couldn't/wouldn't open.
It seems obvious that a virus has attacked me despite
the best efforts of Norton AV and Zone Alarm. This
incident seems focused on Word. It eliminated Word
in the 20-25 minutes I was away at lunch.
Performed a System Restore to three days ago. It
worked fine, but Word desktop icon didn't reappear.
Any ideas? I haven't reinstalled yet (kind of reluctant
to go through all that again w/o knowing more about
the "problem".) Norton scan reveal no viruses. It
seems so strange for a large app such as Word to
disappear.
of computing.
Office 2000 Current on all SP releases/patches.
Word 2003. Pentium 4 running XP Home. 1 GB RAM.
Took a break from working on a Word doc today
(closed the doc and then exited Word) for lunch.
After lunch, I started to resume working on my doc.
Started to click on 2003 desktop icon when
I realized it wasn't there. Say what? Where did it go?
Attempted to launch Word from > Start > Programs.
Word wasn't there.
Ran > Start > Search searching for "winword.exe".
No hit!! Word has disappeared. I did get a hit on
my "D" backup drive (I have a separate 60 GB hard
dedicated to quick & easy backup/restore.) but it
couldn't/wouldn't open.
It seems obvious that a virus has attacked me despite
the best efforts of Norton AV and Zone Alarm. This
incident seems focused on Word. It eliminated Word
in the 20-25 minutes I was away at lunch.
Performed a System Restore to three days ago. It
worked fine, but Word desktop icon didn't reappear.
Any ideas? I haven't reinstalled yet (kind of reluctant
to go through all that again w/o knowing more about
the "problem".) Norton scan reveal no viruses. It
seems so strange for a large app such as Word to
disappear.