My Windows 7 i5 Computer...Virus?

[Tom Saurus]

I left my computer on last night, I was using the Freemake Video Downloader to download some files off of YouTube, my Tmpgenc Xpress 4.0 was shrinking some mpeg2 files to .divx files and I went to bed. I wake up this morning to chaos on my computer. I click on a desktop icon and the wrong program opens, I click on another icon and that same program launches. I go and try to play a file and the wrong file plays.

I just completed a Norton Scan and it didn't find anything. Now the computer is working normal. I don't know what to think.

I checked my History log on my Norton Anti Virus and there was an attempt that was blocked by Norton at 3:04am. There is also a notation that a registry security key was set.

Things seem to be back to normal. But I might uninstall the Freemake Video Downloader.

[Tom Saurus]

I just did another complete scan and everything seems to be fine. This scan went a lot faster and whatever bug seems to be gone. I usually shut my modem off at night, I think I will go back to that practice. I am also going to wary of this Freemake Video Downloader for awhile.

[jagabo]

Scan in safe mode. Even better if you can: remove the drive and scan it in another computer. Use a router with a firewall and you don't have to worry about intrusions.

[Tom Saurus]

I tried to go into Safe Mode, but with this HP Computer it seems to be a different technique than what I am used to, or maybe it is because this is a Windows 7 computer.

Even before this incident, I have foibles with this computer at times. The problems I usually run across is when I am transferring files from my Windows XP computer to this one. I have to make sure that I don't do much when the transfer process starts, not until I see how many minutes it is going to take to transfer, if I wait things are usually fine, if I don't wait I end up with files that are corrupt and this causes Windows Explorer to behave peculiar until that corrupt file is deleted.

[drjtech]

Hit F8 while booting to enter Safe Mode. This works for XP, Vista and Windows 7.

[jagabo]

Even before this incident, I have foibles with this computer at times. The problems I usually run across is when I am transferring files from my Windows XP computer to this one. I have to make sure that I don't do much when the transfer process starts, not until I see how many minutes it is going to take to transfer, if I wait things are usually fine, if I don't wait I end up with files that are corrupt

Something's seriously wrong with your computer. You should address that first.