Trojans!!!!!

Today I was on a downloading spree and I ran into some trojans. A LOT of trojans! And i slowly noticed that my norton was doing nothing, so in haste i downloaded the nod32 trial and sure enough it diid the trick deleted most if not all of the trojans. However I am left with a dilema. I CAN'T OPEN ANY PROGRAMS! Whenever i try to open anything it says please select the program you would like to open this file with. I have no idea what to do here. Any suggestions would be great

When you try to run a .exe Windows asks how?

johnz said:

When you try to run a .exe Windows asks how?

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Exactly... (and i'm the same guy i just had my friend post my question i figured how to get iexplorer open atleast)

Google gives me this...

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/exefile.htm

I'd give some serious consideration to reinstalling though.

johnz said:

Google gives me this...

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/exefile.htm

I'd give some serious consideration to reinstalling though.

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Downloaded that thing and doesnt seem to want to open I was thinking about uninstalling but i got no extra drives to back up onto. Ahh i'll decide tomorrow. Hopefully a reboot will help the situation.

Feeewf the scan for Nod32 finished and it seems to have fixed the problem

I'd highly suggest an offline scan of your system. Many AV vendors have a bootable CD *freely available* that contains the latest definitions for their AV product.

May be this might help..

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14434/scan-a-windows-pc-for-viruses-from-a-ubuntu-live-cd/

We just ran into the same prob in XP...seems to be a virus/trojan. For us, we downloaded "spyware Doctor with antivirus" and after it cleaned up the system and a reboot, it was working as normal.
It found around 152 infections that Norton never noticed.
Norton,McAffee, kaspersky are all over-rated,and are completely useless bloatware in my mind.
So far, the only antivirus prog that has kept me happy is Spyware Doctor with antivirus, although you do have to pay $39.00 U.S. for the antivirus functionality.. it searches for new signatures daily unlike McAffee or Norton...I highly recomend it.