what the fuck is happening here
 

pc fine this morning, rebooted just and now all sorts of shit going on...

loadsa icons on desktop and in start menu looking like this

http://www.warpedsports.com/cgi-bin/...2_30/stats.gif

system (XP) very unstable, anti virus wont initialise...

in task manager i have what looks like far too many instances of

svchost.exe

really hope someone can help here, looks like some sort of virus but i dont know what the fuck...

someone help please! :(

check whats starting up and remove anything that looks fishy
then go into autoexec and look for things on the run= line
and tell me whatss there

and then clean your registry ... if that doesnt work .. go back in your registry ....

woah thanks chris!!

I get this error when trying to start my anti virus

driver(CORE) not found winerr=2

How do i get into my autoexec please?

thanks a lot man!

ok got 5 instances of

svchost.exe going on in task manager.

when i end them, they start up again.

edit : every time i look at a thread on gfy, or post a reply, I get this message

This page provides potentially unsafe information to an ActiveX control. Your current security settings prohibit running controls in this manner. As a result, this page may not display correctly

which aint normal...help me!! aieeee :(

svchost - svchost.exe - Process Information
Process File: svchost or svchost.exe
Process Name: Service Host Process
Description: The Service Host Process is generic host process for services that are run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs)
Common Errors: N/A
System Process: Yes

try running msconfig and seening if theres anything that looks funny running at startup

At the taskbar, right-click Start and select Explore. Search for Autoexec.bat in the root of the C: drive and open it in Notepad

already told him that buddy :-D

im going to take a shower so ill be back in like 10-15 minutes to keep helping for about another half hour tell i hvae to take off

your invected with a worm.......open msconfig and untick anything that doesnt look normal then reboot and load antivirus and scan away the can of worms in ya system

that may not be the case

i was just doing some reading.....

alot of people have had this problem IF they installed an Icon pack in the past or recently

update, thanks for all your help guys...

had some nasty data miner that ad aware has just got rid of.

system seems a lot more stable now BUT

anti virus still wont start and icons still look like in first post.

a little worried here :(

format c:

maybe try booting into safe mode and running the anti-virus.

format c: :Graucho

jDoG