My very first virus... Please helpFollow

Hello,

As the title of the thread says, I have a virus. As for as I know this is the first virus I've had on my computer in the 3 years that I've owned it. I have Nortons installed on my computer and it did not catch it.

I'm don't know a whole lot about computers, so please excuse my lack knowledge and terminology.

As far as I can remember, I have not downloaded anything today. This problem was non-existant yesterday and only began occurring a few hours ago. What's happening is, whenever I beging to chat with anyone on MSN, a series of dots immediately appear in the chat box on their own accord. I am typing absolutely nothing when this happens. After a few seconds, the dots turn into a jumble of seemingly random words. The only thing that seems to appear often are the words "Bernard Miller" and "Error".

Also, when this happens, or any time I run a new program, another window appears in the top left corner of the screen that simply looks like a series of periods. It starts out as just a few, but then it gradually increases the amount of periods until it reaches about midway across the screen. The window will sometimes disappear and then reappear and just repeat the process until it seemingly randomly stop. There is also a button at the end of this series and when I cursor over it, the sub-text says "Finish the line"

So far I've tried running Norton's and Combofix to find the problem, but it persists. I also tried to use AVG, but I get an error every time I attempt to install it that says there arn't enough resources for the program to run.

I've never seen or heard of anything like this before and I'm reluctant to open or use any more programs. The last thing I want is to have my credit information sent to whoever did this.

Come to think of it, the only odd thing I've done all day was switch keyboards from my PS2 to my PC to see if it was still working since it hadn't on my PS2. The problems occured about 30-60 minutes after this, but I somehow doubt this is related

Thanks in advance for any help or information I may be provided.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2007 9:55pm by Armeni

Try some free solutions first;

Housecall Virii scanner and remover
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

ClamWin portable
http://www.portableapps.com
(Can be downloaded with the suite or just that application)

I would try those first and foremost as with my experience housecall will catch almost anything you have. If these solutions do not work then post back and I have a few other things you can try.

If for some reason you are still running out of resources then I suggest booting into safemode with networking. you can do this by pressing F8 while your machine starts up and it should list about 8 options (Safe Mode, Safe Mode w/ Networking, Boot Windows Normally, etc.)

Do that then try and run the online or portable versions.

I would also suggest while you are doing that to run a spyware cleaner such as spybot S&D. As spyware can also influence your machine almost like a virii can if not worse by eating system resources.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2007 6:36pm by xXBijiontXx