Media Player Virus

Hello Toby. You might have installed some adware programs unknowingly along with the installation of other programs. For your information no antivirus program is capable of providing you with 100% protection with this type of adware programs although AVG are always working 24/7. These adware programs should be removed manually. I would recommend you to start with uninstalling all unknown/unused programs and browser addons.

My computer has become infected with a virus that seems to have imposed a change so that whenever I try to run a program, Media Center runs instead. Sometimes I can get a program to run (at present Outlook, Paintshop Pro and Explorer seem to work OK) but AVG has been completely corrupted and I can't get any downloaded scanning progrems to run.

Has anybody any ideas? I can't even run System Restore…

I'll be extremely grateful fro any advice. I've tried Google but I get lots of references to Media Centre Popup Ads virus which isn't the same thing as my problem.

Many thanks

===Toby===

Hello Toby. You might have installed some adware programs unknowingly along with the installation of other programs. For your information no antivirus program is capable of providing you with 100% protection with this type of adware programs although AVG are always working 24/7. These adware programs should be removed manually. I would recommend you to start with uninstalling all unknown/unused programs and browser addons.