I seem to have picked up a virus/worm similar to the blaster worm
but it has also stopped task manager from working,when I press ctrl-alt-del
task manager appears on screen briefly then vanishes,it also wont allow me to run windows update & I got error messages when trying to load a new av program . Has anyone any ideas as to what this is and how to get rid. I have tried FixBlast but it didnt find anything.........Help

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daym ..... sounds nasty

shut down ya pc, then re start whilst tapping the F8 Key, and then choose safe mode,

task manager etc etc should work then
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Thanks for the reply I tried safe mode and task manager worked but there was nothing sinister in there. Managed to load a patch that fixed the windows update problem. But when I came out of safe mode task manager hid again and so does regedit. Anyone got any other ideas or should I use plan B switch off scream and reach for beer

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check you setting as user are admin
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yep settings are ok.....anyways my head hurts pass the beer

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its probably a virus?
I had a very similar problem ages ago.
I had norton a/v installed and it did not pick up anything. I installed Fsecure a/v instead and it found loads and also sorted the problem out.
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try one of the online free virus scan proggies might find the little devil thats plagueing you
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