programs wont open
 

i try and open any program(besides windows programs) and it brings up a dos box and then closes in like .0001 one second.....and hten nuttin happens....i think i may have a virus....but i cant open my virus scan hehe......i tried reinstalling windows but no luck.....dont feel like formating cuz i got alot 40 gig's of stuff that aint burnt on CD's.....and that would be alot of CD's.....anyone ever herd of a virus that souhds like this......all my other computers on my network also hae same prob....

it does sound like a virus is a posibility, get yourself a virus checker than can boot from a cd or a disk. norton can

Re: programs wont open
 

I have no idea what you mean by that. Could you explain further?

all windows programs work like paint and internet but nothing that is non windows made like my games and my cad software....

find the path and filename of one of the executables that doesn't work, usually right click properties will tell you the path and name

then open a cmd prompt with Start / run / cmd

when the cmd prompt opens
cd path_of_executable
nameofprogram.exe

then see if it spits out a message

so for a program istalled in C:\program files\some\program.exe
you'd do

cmd
cd "C:\program files\some"
program.exe

use quotes if there are spaces in the directory name as i have.


this will at least tell you if its saying anything, rather than just quitting with no message.

Its possible the file associations for exe or such are broken, but then pain shouldnt run either, all i can think of is an exe attaching virus thats attaching itself to programs that aren't protected by windows file protection ( which should replace the bad files with good ones after an infection ) and since the user installed programs aren't protected in this way, they can be infected easily.

but its hard to say, might be something completely different

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i got to the point where nothing at all would open....it spread acrost my network and spread to a friends computer that i burned a CD for about a week ago....now i got about 5 computers to fix. Gonna half to reformat them all....my computer wont even open.....and its building up files on my HD....filled up my C drive to where there is 0 room......not sure what it is but it seems 2 spread easly.....i think it came off some roms i DLed and then burned for a friend....

i did it and it it flashes realy quick but one time it stayed and said sumtin about enough memory......