System Tray - windows XP

[FLYNNE]

System tray problems - Windows XP home Edition
I have at least 6 icons in my system tray at any one time including Norton
anti - virus, spybot , windows defender etc.

Yesterday on booting my computer I was surprised to see that many of these
icons have now become past items instead of current items. This does not make
sense as I have not altered anything at all on my computer.

The norton anti - virus icon has become a past item and now I am getting
irritating displays that my virus protection is switched off. I have loaded
Norton anti - virus - gone to options and switched on on line virus
protection.

This does not work and the option becomes unchecked.

I would like to know how this happened and change past system items to
current system tray items i.e return things to what they were previously.

Any suggestions please.

Regards

Flynne

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Friday, April 17, 2009 7:53:01 AM, and on a whim,
FLYNNE pounded out on the keyboard:

System tray problems - Windows XP home Edition
I have at least 6 icons in my system tray at any one time including Norton
anti - virus, spybot , windows defender etc.

Yesterday on booting my computer I was surprised to see that many of these
icons have now become past items instead of current items. This does not make
sense as I have not altered anything at all on my computer.

The norton anti - virus icon has become a past item and now I am getting
irritating displays that my virus protection is switched off. I have loaded
Norton anti - virus - gone to options and switched on on line virus
protection.

This does not work and the option becomes unchecked.

I would like to know how this happened and change past system items to
current system tray items i.e return things to what they were previously.

Any suggestions please.

Regards

Flynne

Hi Flynne,

Sounds like you may have become infected, regardless of what you have.
What version of NAV are you using, and is your subscription current?

Is Spybot updated? Have you run a full scan?

Download Malwarebytes, update and do a full scan.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You may want to boot into Safe Mode to run the scans after updating.

This may be only the beginning...


Terry R.