Virus

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

My laptop has a bug.

Its a real bastard :

Can't browse to antivirus sites, in fact if you type in the name of any antivirus products into a search engine and hit submit, it closes the window.
It won't let me access the windows firewall or security center settings.
I can't access the firewall via the command prompt.
The processes window in the task manager comes up blank.
Won't let me install AVG.

I just installed windows on this machine a week ago and haven't installed any antivirus. Anyone know what it is? Anyone know an online scanner that might not be programmed into this little bastard?

Edit : After rolling XP back to SP1 Ad-Aware now picks up 31 objects. A bunch of Alexa trackers, two windows vulnerabilities listed as regedit access disablement. When the regedit disablement is removed, regedit is still unavailable. I'm pretty sure this is a virus rather than spyware.
Considering I have the latest windows updates, have not opened any email attachments, have been running the windows firewall every time I've been connected and have only been connected for short periods browsing fairly inoccuous sites, I'm going to have to assume its some sort of worm.. It seems made for SP2.

Comments

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

And holy crap, I have that little dragon figurine in my bedroom.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Aww, he sure is a cutie. I've got a few of these little guys on Monitor Lizard duty right now, but I don't actually have the pocket dragon that's in my icon. Yet ;-)