windows explorer

[Guest]

this all happened to me when i turned my computer on one day. i dont know why.

-windows explorer will not show the names of any of the drives. only shows
little icons, but no text whatso ever. all files and folders will show up but
not the drive names.

-quicklaunch dissapeared. i checked and unchecked the option in the taskbar
properties and still wont appear.

-there are files that i've never seen before in the f: drive waiting to be
written to cd. i didnt put them there and i've never seen them before. plus,
they will not delete.

-my IE favorites are gone. i had them backed up on a second harddrive and
there were deleted too. ????

all programs seem to be functioning properly. i'm able to do just about
anything i did before, just these things started all of a sudden. did i get
hit with some kind of virus or worm? i ran norton which is fully updated and
it found nothing. adaware as well found nothing.

any help would be appreciated. i just dont want to mess with reinstalling
windows AGAIN.

thanks in advance,
adam

 

[Guest]

It sounds like you might have malware or a worm on your system i would run
spybot search and destroy also get stinger.exe from macfee and run it also
get ad aware on your system, you might want to look into a software or
hardware firewall if you have a dsl or broadband connection.