Dear all
I recently got infected with the Digital Protection virus and, by the sounds of things, I'm not the only one! However, my experience seems to have gone a step further than most I have read on here.
I am fairly confident that the virus has gone, malware seemed to delete it and there are absoƖute no signs of it anywhere. However, malware rebooted the laptop and, when it restarted I found the following problems:
1. I cannot change any windows security features, to turn on firewall etc.
2. The majority of applications (malware included) do not open and instead show me an "open with" box, with a greyed out tick-box to remember the application chosen for the future.
3. When I try to run any .exe file at all, I get a similar "choose application" box.
4. My symantec internet security, though it opens and says secure, also displays the "open with" box when I try to run a scan and perform other functions.
I would be very grateful for any help at all, especially as I do not have any of my laptop disks with me at present so I couldn't perform a complete system restoration.
Many thanks
Josh
I recently got infected with the Digital Protection virus and, by the sounds of things, I'm not the only one! However, my experience seems to have gone a step further than most I have read on here.
I am fairly confident that the virus has gone, malware seemed to delete it and there are absoƖute no signs of it anywhere. However, malware rebooted the laptop and, when it restarted I found the following problems:
1. I cannot change any windows security features, to turn on firewall etc.
2. The majority of applications (malware included) do not open and instead show me an "open with" box, with a greyed out tick-box to remember the application chosen for the future.
3. When I try to run any .exe file at all, I get a similar "choose application" box.
4. My symantec internet security, though it opens and says secure, also displays the "open with" box when I try to run a scan and perform other functions.
I would be very grateful for any help at all, especially as I do not have any of my laptop disks with me at present so I couldn't perform a complete system restoration.
Many thanks
Josh