IMPORTANT! - New Virus Info, what happened to me

[Hardy]

I got back from my WWE event (very very fun!) and I came into the computer room to see the screen was HUGE, the icons were the size of half the screen (exagerated a little, lol), and my awsome backround was gone :cry: I asked my step-dad how it happened, he said a program made an illegal operation, he said to close, then it said it needed to restart the computer, and he did. It came back up like that, he didn't mess with it since. Well, I looked at it, and ALL the drivers and windows settings were deleted. Even settings in games! (ie: D2 settings set back to default, as well as EQ, along with some others). I had to reinstall all my drivers, and then I notice Norton Antivirus won't work! So I reinstalled that, it finally opened for me. I click liveupdate, it updates virus definitions, then all of a sudden, it says it can't install them because I don't have antivirus installed. I look at the main norton screen, and there was no antivirus button, only utilities and cleanup. I installed again, told it to install antivirus only, took about 2sec and it still would not install. HELP! lol, I dunno what to do! If I reformat, i won't be able to play EQemu till it gets fixed with new EQ patch :cry: Mainly because patcher don't work for me (using win98 2ed). If you know how to get rid of this type of virus, please tell me! I might reinstall windows without reformating, see how that goes.

Oh yea, and under add/remove programs, NO programs were listed, they were all gone, yet I can still play D2 and everything. It also set my directx back to version 6.1!!!!!!!!