Remember a few months ago, when I had the AntivirXP 08, and then I got the 09. It took the guys from Radial Point (they are the Verizon Internet Security Suite guys), it took them QUITE A FEW TIMES to get rid of that virus.

I was given the Super Professional Anti-spyware program. That is a great one. But the guys have their own tools, and they download the stuff, clean up your computer, and you have a brand new computer running just fine. (but I think the virus just hides somewhere).

WELL, YOU HAVE TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO US YESTERDAY.

We were doing just fine. No problems.

then Alan says "I can't use the keyboard, and watch what happens when I try and go on the internet"

Every single time I would click on any icon on my desktop, a box would come up and give me the properties of that icon.

I couldn't go on the internet. I couldn't go ANYWHERE. And the kicker is that it would not let me do any system restore. So, to me, that smelled of a virus.

I was able to click on Super Professional Anti-spyware and ran a scan. IT FOUND NOTHING.

I then was able to run Verizon Internet Security Suite. IT FOUND NOTHING WAS INFECTED ?????????

My keyboard was dead in the water. I then said "what if I unplug my keyboard from the back of the computer and plug it into another USB port in the FRONT of my computer (I know, this has absolutely nothing to do with clicking on an icon and getting me on the internet but I was getting no where). So I did it. Nothing changed. Keyboard was not responsive.

And I had gone into Control Panel and looked up Keyboard and it was not showing me that I had a keyboard hooked up. Even when I re-plugged the keyboard into the front port, and I get the message (new hardware found), I got all excited and went into Wordpad and BAM, it would not type anything.

Very frustrating. Alan walks over to me and says "so did the virus scan find anything?" I looked at him and said "nothing, but this is a virus unlike anything I've seen". He said "but it says No viruses found". I said "I don't care what it said, there's a virus, a very smart virus. Because I've never heard of this thing, that when you click on any icon, a window pops up and gives you PROPERTIES of that icon.

Every single time.

then I went into Outlook Express (if I clicked on the Icon, the properties of Outlook Express came on). So I went to Start, programs, Outlook Express and THAT'S WHEN OUTLOOK EXPRESS came on. So I could see all my emails, but when I hit reply, I could not type anything.

Then in five minutes, EVERYBODY GOT BACK TO NORMAL AND EVERYTHING WORKED, and Alan's running around saying "my computer is fine". I said 'believe me, this is NOT FINE". There's something going on".

In a while, I'm calling the guys at Verizon and pick their brain.

ANY IDEAS would be most welcome.

Right now it's fine. Very suspicious.

A computer does not go from what it was doing, to FINE, in 5 minutes. Not after 2 hours of driving me crazy and not being responsive.

What the heck do I have inside this computer, a little elf controlling all the applications.???

Has anyone ever have (what happened to me), happen to them?

Thanks much.

Melody