Last night, yet again, I notice the task manager has been disabled by the administrator. Yet another virus. And so update my definitions and do a scan with Norton Antivirus, but it finds nothing. Time: 2 hours. But my task manager is disabled, and this is trouble.
And so I do another scan with Malwarebytes, find 4 viruses, remove them. Humourously about halfway through the scan Norton tells me I have a virus (having just done a complete system scan and come up empty handed) - a little like a guard dog barking at it's owner to tell him his house has been robbed. The Task Manager is still disabled, I check group policy, settings are fine. I reset it, this seems to fix the issue of bringing up the task manager. The Windows Online fix-tool does nothing to allow me to access it. I have no idea where these viruses came from, but suspect that perhaps they came from the files on the other PC I fixed (and temporarily copied to my PC.). Internet Explorer has crashed 3 times this morning, despite my being unable to find any active processes or startup items that might be virus related, the reporting tool advises me that it's a windows issue and I should get used to it.
I suppose I should just get used to it. I'm on the computer a lot, maybe I should budget time for fixing these issues, or just realize that it's windows and they'll never be fixed, and be grateful I didn't succumb to all the hype about Vista and think of how things could be worse...
Now to scan it with AdAware.