My computer has been acting funny — Word and Powerpoint say that all my Office files are “not available” even though they open fine if I move them to my laptop; a saved game from Serious Same 2 was corrupted yesterday — so I ran AVG’s detailed scan to check for viruses. I switched from Norton Antivirus to AVG about 1.5 yrs ago because I got tired of Norton’s belief that my computer is its plaything. AVG didn’t find any viruses. So I ran Norton and it found four: Hacktool (2 files); Trojan.ByteVerify, and W32Mydoom.BN@mm.

I doubt these are causing my problem. For example, the MyDoom was in an email in my Thunderbird Trash bin. So, the question is whether Norton actually beat AVG or does Norton simply over-report?

Anyway, now I’m moving on to a chkdsk to see if I’m about to lose yet another hard drive… [Tags: viruses]

Nothing that a complete reinstall of Office won’t fix. But now my task bar isn’t loading correctly. It sure feels like a virus…

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