Ahhhh! How is this fixed(I think I got a bad virus)

[Bruiser]

I was playing Rise of Nations tonight when a blue screen appeared and my computer crashed. After rebooting, I cannot open ANY application. It is constantly loading and going very slow. I cannot open any of my virus protection programs or anything else.

I have no idea how to solve this or if I will have to take it to a computer shop. It did this before(although I could open applications it was just VERYYY SLow) Somehow that went away but this one has me worried as I cannot open any programs to scan and locate what is causing this. I also got a warning from SystemTec that I need to reinstall program or something.

Any suggestions?

[808smokey]

What OS do you have?

Was it a "Fatal Error" screen (Dark Blue with small white letters) or... The blue screen of death (The one that says CTRL+ALT+DELETE)

Try to boot to safe mode. It's either probably F5 or F8 depends on the system. That way it will bypass all your drivers. Then if it successfully boots run your Antivirus scan. Or boot from a Antivirus boot disk from the A:\

[Bruiser]

It was a blue screen with white writing. Thanks, I will try to reboot in safe mode. But the blue was more of a light blue if I remember right, it just flashed for a second and then it was all jacked up.

Windows XP is my OS.

[Bruiser]

I went through safe mode, Norton Antivirus did not find any virus it said. I did an adware search and got rid of one file. It is still acting up and have no idea what it is.

[northcat_8]

if it is actually a virus, one of the best ways to get rid of a dangerous virus is to take your HD, change the jumper to slave and then connect it in a different computer as a slave. And then scan it.

I like this method if the virus is loading at startup.

a good free virus scanner is www.trendmicro.com, it's online obviously but it catches some that Norton and McAfee doesn't catch and the best part is when it finds one, it shows it in the scanner window as a link and you can click the link and it takes you to a page where they explain the virus, names for it, how it is spread, file names. Then tells you how to solve your problems clear down to registry edits and the whole 9 yards. Very informative site even if you don't use their scanner.