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Ok I'm 99% sure I have got this sussed now. Big thanks to Snow for the tips above, they worked a treat. Had a couple of problems which I'll report back on in case anyone else is searching for this information. I couldn't get the Malwarebytes program to work, it would install and start the scan but then just shut down. It did the same thing when running in safe mode and if I changed the file name. In the end I found the location of the B.exe file (with the trojan in it) and manually deleted. This information from found in Windows defender as a threat blocked, it was located in: c:\users\username\appdata\local\temp\b.exe With this deleted I was able to perform a system restore in Safe mode. Once I had done that I could run the other programs and clean things up properly. Thanks again Dan

Hi Snow many thanks for moving the thread and all the info. I've completed step one and downloaded and installed the Malwarebytes program but am having problems running this. It opened and I clicked perform full scan, then clicked scan. But the program then closed and when I try to reopen I get an error saying: windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the item. I've tried running as administrator and also going directly to mbam.eve on the c: but get the same thing happen. Any ideas on what going wrong many thanks Dan Edit: just tried to reinstall it, got as far as starting the scan bu then the prog shut down :( and I now get the same error message again. Will try in safe mode!

Hi Really hoping someone can help me here as this is causing lots of grief! Had a problem yesterday when IE8 and FF both stopped working, am using Chrome at the moment which seems to be ok. Trouble is the PC keeps wanting to reboot itself, saying "Windows encounted a critical problems and will restart" I've tried running a system restore but that hasn't worked. Also run a full scan with AVG and that didn't pick anything up. The problems seemed to start happening while I was downloading some video capture software yesterday afternoon although I'm pretty sure there was nothing dodgy. Looking further into this I have found B.exe listed in windows defender, just trying to find ways to removing this as searches are saying it's a trojan. Can anyone offer any advice on the best ways to get rid of this please? Cheers Dan

Hi All Feela bit silly asking this but I'm tried everything I can think of and can't see a solution after searching the web. Basically I can't get Firefox to open on my Vista :mad: It used to work just fine, but then just stopped, I don't think this co-incided with any changes I have made on the PC. I have tried DL tyhe latest version of Firefox, uninstalling this and re-installing it. Also checked the problems area in the control panel but it's not showing up as a problem. Also played around with the Windows Firewall setting but with no luck. When I launch FF, I get the windows loading icon, but nothing happens, however the machine thinks FF is running. After checking the Task manager, it's not showing up under the applications but it is showing up under the processes. Anyone got any ideas how I can get this working, I hate IE! and also need to see sites in other browsers like FF. Cheers Dan

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Hey guys, thanks for the warm welcome. So nice to post an hello and get a response :D

Hi all Just seen a reccomendation for this forum and after looking about, thought I'd join up to say hi. I'm no PC expert but seem to know more than a lot of my friends so they think I'm PC support! I don't tell them I have to find half the anwers on the web first, might as well let them think I'm clever :cool: Cheers Dan