Hello,
Yes, if you format your PC, you loose every files but before, maybe you can try to make a restoration system on a prior date to your problem.

"Pour trouver une solution � ses probl�mes, il faut s'en donner la peine."

Having the similar problem last few weeks running XP pro. Also some of the blue background does not fill when using windows explorer. Computer is less than a year old. Seems to happen coming off of standby. A hard reboot fixes the problem for a short time. Local repair house thinks its a virus/spyware effecting the registry. Ran trendmicro and lavalSoft, didn't find anything except the usual bad cookies. Guess i'll wait for the blue screen death message.

Do you have Symantec installed? I've seen this happen with the latest version of symantec.

This is a new virus/trojan/hijacker. There are no anti virus hunters at this time.
The people who write these viruses should go far away, very far away.
They are gleeful at causing trouble and prolems for other people. The world would be far better off without them. If you think about it, they are evil, not bringing life.

Hi guys,

I had the same problem after visiting some rogue internet website proclaiming to be selling anti-virus software.
To clean the infected harddisk, what I did was install win vista on another harddisk and attached the infected harddisk to the computer system as a secondary drive.

Then I cleaned out the infected disk after booting up with the clean harddisk. It's not possible to clean an infected disk using anti-virus/trojan software if you are also booting up with the infected disk; because when the anti-virus/trojan software asks you to reboot, the deleted virus/trojan will be restored from a recycle/backup copy or it was not possible to delete the viruses/trojans because they were programs in use, read only, hidden etc.

In order to use this method, you need to have some hardware knowledge and find out more about the virus/trojan using anti-virus/trojan scanners. In my case, the infection was evident because when I clicked on a drive icon, window explorer did not execute and I can't see the files in a drive or subdirectory.

In win explorer, I clicked on folder options and reset options to default. Also, I deleted a hidden file (desktop.inf) present in the root directory of each drive. It was back to normal booting speed when I use the cleaned harddisk as a boot disk again.

Try this method if you don't want to lose your programs/data files. Good luck.

Buy a *legal* copy!!!!!
And stop bothering with antiwpa things.

Hello,


i got Xp sp3

It may be due to a spyware or a virus inffecting the registry files..Scan your PC with an Antivirus like Avast...in the worst case format your PC ...good luck