Do I have I virus?

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Hey I'm REALLY worried about my home computer, on the day of the Sasser virus I was on the net and suddenly my Internet Explorer quit working (a pop up with one of those 'send error report' or 'don't send' buttons came up - I went further into it and it says something is wrong with 'appcompat.txt'). Anyway, my computer is 'fine' apart from me not being able to get into Internet Explorer and not being able to get into any folder systems because Explorer has the same start up problem as IE! All other programs work fine - eg. I can do word processing by opening the link to Microsoft Word on my desktop and open the file from the program - like I said the folder system in Explorer doesn't work at all and that error message comes up! My computer doesn't restart or anything which is why I'm not sure if its Sasser or not. PLEASE HELP! (this is a uni computer I'm typing from...

btw I have Windows XP home
 
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Hey I'm REALLY worried about my home computer, on the
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day of the Sasser virus I was on the net and suddenly my
Internet Explorer quit working (a pop up with one of
those 'send error report' or 'don't send' buttons came
up - I went further into it and it says something is
wrong with 'appcompat.txt'). Anyway, my computer
is 'fine' apart from me not being able to get into
Internet Explorer and not being able to get into any
folder systems because Explorer has the same start up
problem as IE! All other programs work fine - eg. I can
do word processing by opening the link to Microsoft Word
on my desktop and open the file from the program - like I
said the folder system in Explorer doesn't work at all
and that error message comes up! My computer doesn't
restart or anything which is why I'm not sure if its
Sasser or not. PLEASE HELP! (this is a uni computer I'm
typing from...)
btw I have Windows XP home
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try to remove any adaware from a website called
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lavasoft or get a free online virus scan from
trendmicro.com
 
I'm having the same kind of problem on my laptop at home (Win XP Home).
Can't connect to Internet via my broadband connection, so can'
download any patches. Therefore bought my pc into the office today t
see if I could connect here but it won't even let me do that. However
I can explore my folders.

Does this sound like a virus? My ISP said it sounded like Sasser, bu
they could just have been shifting the blame as I called them on th
day that it hit and they were run off their feet.

If it is Sasser, how can I fix it if I can't get onto the internet?!
Is there anyway of checking my pc to see if I've definitely got a
infected file? Norton wont scan my computer unless I'm connected t
the net.

(Also, may not be relevant, but I can't ping any sites in comman
prompt, it says 'Ping request could not find host www.asdf.com. Pleas
check the name and try again.'


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christin
 
Greetings --

Well, what does your anti-virus application report after you've
scanned the hard drive?

Bruce Chambers

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