Hey all, I think I got some kinda weird virus or something. I just noticed it after I cleaned about 10gigs of crap off my hard drive. Anyway, if I try to use a search engine, that window will stop responding. I will type what I want in the search box, but then I won’t be able to do anything with the window. What the hell is going on?!It’s really pissing me off, any help?
Oops, my bad, I forgot, I am running WIN98 with Active Desktop on. Umm, and am using the newest IE, i think…V.6?
I think I would try repairing the installation of IE - this is usually found by going through the motions of uninstalling it in the add/remove programs dialog in the control panel, but instead oof just uninstalling, you get a dialog asking you if you want to reinstall/repair or uninstall.
Didn’t work 
What exactly was the stuff you deleted and where did you delete it from? (if you can remember). - specifically, did you delete anything from a subfolder of Program Files or Windows?
yeah… who here thinks he probobly deleted something?
I just deleted stuff out ot my KazAa folder. Videos, songs, ISOs. I also uninstalled some old games. That’s it. Nothing that would matter, or in anyway affect IE…
Try running Ad-Aware, available from Lavasoft. It can clear out all sorts of spyware and associated junk that KaZaA tends to dump into your system.
If you still suspect a virus, then I’d recommend a visit to www.antivirus.com for their free housecall online scan, then over to www.grisoft.com to download and install AVG free edition (installable virus scanner).
I reccomend running http://www.bitdefender.com/ on your computer, and following that up with another installable virus scanner. ** Mangetout and Alereon ** reccomendations for Ad-Aware and AVG are really good ideas too.
Try a different browser (Netscape, Opera, etc). From the behavior you describe, I suspect a missing component of MSIE rather than a virus, but if the behavior manifests itself in other browsers as well, that can’t be so.
I downloaded Opera, and was using it fine, but now everytime I load it up, it freezes! I the window that tells me i have to close it, but it doesn’t even fully appear. I can barely make any words on it. Then it goes blue screen… I am thinking of reformatting my HD, but I am afraid of screwing that up. I got a friend who can probably help me do it tho.