I dont really know what I have. Internet explorer keeps on opening to random websites.
I ran lavasoft adaware and as soon as the scan started, it closed.
(idk if this is against the rules) but then i ran malwarebytes and as soon as the scan started, it closed
Then I ran spybot search and destroy, and as soon as the scan started, it closed.
I ran hijack this and as soon as the scan started, it closed again.
a couple antivirus sites i go into gets redirected as soon as i go to them.
I opened up task manager and i had something under processes called a.exe in there. i googled it on laptop and it turned out to be some kind of worm. I manually deleted it and now when i open task manager again i have something called msa.exe which i googled again as another kind of problem. I got rid of that manually. I dont see anything else wrong with my process list
I still cant scan for anything. any help?
I am running windows xp home.
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oh i forgot to mention... I cannot run adaware,malware bytes, or hijack this anymore. After 1 run , scan and close, this problem somehow makes these programs unable to run anymore. It corrupts the exe and makes it impossible to run i believe. Adaware says "cannot connect to service" the others say "windows cannot access the specified device,path, or file. you may not have the appropiate permissions to access this file"
yea nothing i do or any program i try to use works.