It was a Trojan.small and another....... A newer virus originating from China, I was on
www.jeepforum.com this time and reading threads, using IE and have zone-alarm firewall I have used for many years, I let a flash-player app open in zonealarm warning like I do many times so the web page loads and works correctly, then next thing I know all sorts of stuff pops up that this and that wont load from windows, then black desktop and telling me app after app will not load as image is damaged in windows..... I ran multi virus programs and tools from safe mode, did all the rootkit cleaning tools, regedit and removed all registry info it told me to remove, I even loaded in a whole new registry I have back ups from all the way up to 2 years ago, all was fine but no internet, I would uninstall network adapter and the minute it was reinstalled and working and had internet access all hec would break loose, the virus has a way to hide files and paths and lock files, I really did battle, I even went as far as recovery from alot of points in time i could recover to, I did a start point from last month, then it said all my recovery points and windows corrupted......
So luckily I had a free copy of Windows 7 Home Premium Compaq had given me last year for all people whom bought Compaq/HP products with Windows Vista installed, I never installed it as Vista always worked for me....also I picked up another Sata hard drive new a couple weeks ago to add to my system as my 500gig main drive was getting full.....
I popped out old HD and installed new one in its place, loaded and installed windows 7 by itself with no HP disc they sent along also to add their bloat ware and all up and running in 20 minutes..... wow, windows 7 is painless, I didnt even have to change boot sequence to install 7 from disc.... its awesome, loads faster and looks so much better.... spent last hour loading in all my programs I get off the net I use, updated Nvidia drivers for graphics card and good to go, tonight i will rebuild my Steam game account and tomorrow will grab another Sata cable and P3 to Sata power adaptor as all the power connectors off the power supply are to short! and install my old HD as a slave drive, transfer all my documents and pics and all personal stuff to new HD and format old HD with virus and old windows vista........
I spent alot of time trin to get rid of it, I am pretty good at getting around a PC and have fixed other virus probs in the past.... More I did the steps and used tools from various forums and websites to fix this problem, the more it destroyed my system......
I really also need to use Firefox more for surfing.......Just makes me mad people have nothing better to do but make viruses, always thought it was the anti virus companies making the viruses so we buy their stuff.....
I have windows 7 on my ASUS Netbook I use in the Jeep tethered to my Blackberry and really did not notice a difference compared to Vista as the netbook is slow and not very powerful. but Windows 7 on my desktop PC is really a lot better then Vista in alot of ways......
I did catch a virus from youtube, that was about 6 months ago and was looking at youtube vids when stuff went array.... it destroyed and emptied all my program shortcuts in start menu, and deleted a bunch of Windows add ons.... I got rid of it using malwarebytes and SuperAntivirus tools, it was easier to make another user account on my PC and use it, then try and fix all the missing stuff and corrupted files, new user account everything was intact and usable.......