virus help

[ljs]

turn pc on this morning, i was logged out of all my sites, as if my cookies were cleared, windows live all the accounts that are used were no longer there, now i cant connect says the service is temporarily unavailable its not even trying to connect, and i know live is working cause i can get it on the laptop , even the remember me, remember pw and aign me in auto boxes are shaded out. ie keeps popping up a message saying a program is trying to change my default search settings, but it doesnt say what program. ive run spybot,adaware,malwarebytes,avg and even run regcure. nothing is found. any1 got any ideas?

[^Dylan]

Try running Malwarebytes and Superantispyware in safe mode if you havent already

[ljs]

done that super anti spy found a tracking cookie and a trojan malwarebytes found nowt. still have same problem.

[Van Nugent]

Check your network connection on the PC that has problem to see if it can connect to both Local and Internet. Are you running Vista, x64 or x32?

[ljs]

vista x32 and all connected to net. its just my personal settings are gone some proggy keeps trying to change my homepage and mindows live wont connect. im saying its a virus but im not sure as i cant seem to find it. also flashget has developed a fault saying it couldnt access appdata dunno if this is related.

[Van Nugent]

FlashGet (http://www.flashget.com/en/download.htm) as well as other download managers (including p2p tools) tend to change Windows connection settings in order to speed up file transfers. Please remove FlashGet then reboot the system to see if the problem can be fixed. If not, try to reset Windows Winsock:

- Rightclick the Command Prompt icon (Starts => All Programs => Accessories) then select Open as admin to open the elevated Command Prompt interface;

- Type netsh winsock reset then press <Enter>;

- Reboot the system.

This hopefully will fix the problem. Also, please check FlashGet website to see if there is a new version of FlashGet.

Edit: Run SuperAntiSpyware as suggested, update the virus definitions then rescan your system (choose a full scan).

[ljs]

it appears the ie error is summat to do with appdata folder. there is a reg fix but this didnt work for me. flashget also said the error was summat to do with appdata folder and not being able to access it. will try above and see what happens

[ljs]

right have done the above. have uninstalled/reinstalled flashget (now working) and windows live. windows live refuses to login.
goto sign in and it just says we cant sign you in as the service is temporarily unavailable, error code is 80070005. have tried everything even found the following
Completely uninstall Messenger. Make sure there are no remnant files or folders.

Then go to Start, Run and type in %temp% and then OK. (Not sure if that shortcut works on 2000, but it should. If not, manually go to your temp folder)

Delete everything in the folder, then reinstall Messenger.

its not even attempting to login onto the server its just popping up the error immediatley.

still have the ie error also saying some proggy is trying to change my default serch engine

[ljs]

right update:
problem sorted, its obviously a windows issue associated with the main account. so create new account with admin rights, copied all i need from old account, deleted the old account and touch wood all is now working :) thanks for help all