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cmd.exe trouble on startup, deleting files?

KateetaK · 2008-04-01T21:37:18+00:00

Before I post the log, I will fill you in a little. BTW my OS is Windows XP Media Center Edition. When I started up my computer today, a box appeared in the upper left-hand corner of my screen that read at the top: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe (while nothing else loads, not even the taskbar) and files began to appear in the box running very quickly. They were moving very quickly but I did see that most of the files began with "Deleted Files.." or something to that effect. I closed the box out since this had never happened to me before & I had no idea what was going on. Then I opened my browser (Mozilla Firefox) to see if I could check around and see what the problem is and everything was gone from my browser...all of the bookmarks, add-ons, preferences set back to default - as if I had never used it before. After that, I closed the browser and ran an anti-virus scan along with a spyware scan. They did not detect a thing. Actually, when I started up my anti-virus program (AVG) it was as

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KateetaK

April 11, 2008, 8:54 PM UTC

Great. I want to thank you again Scotty for all of your help, I really appreciate it. My machine is running nicely.

I will definitely come back to these forums should I ever encounter other problems & will recommend the site to friends. Have a great day and keep up the outstanding work!

---Kate

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April 12, 2008, 1:07 PM UTC

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