Why do the taskbar and desktop on my Windows 8 laptop keep disappearing and reappearing?

danielbryan94

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Ever since last night the taskbar and desktop on my Asus X501A laptop keep disappearing and reappearing. My laptop runs on Windows 8.

It all started when I had to refresh my laptop so I could update something. When I logged back on, the taskbar didn't respond, and then it kept disappearing and reappearing. The disappearing and reappearing of the desktop followed soon after.

The thing I had to update was Norton 360 Antivirus. Everyone thinks I accidentally installed a fake antivirus - meaning I might have a virus on my laptop that's causing this.

What's causing this? Could it be a massive virus?
 
Solution
Explorer.exe kept crashing according to the eventview. after reading many forums a tried a program called "SUPERAntiSpyware". Turned out I had a
Trojan called Vundo. Funny thing is I tried Ad-aware before, which in fact discovered something other than just cookies but appearently didn't clean my PC completly. SUPERAntiSpyware is the way to go
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Another program I recommend is Malwarebytes
https://www.malwarebytes.org/
Do a full scan and after removing the virus it should solve the issue
Hope this will fix your issue :) :)

Cazauxx

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Explorer.exe kept crashing according to the eventview. after reading many forums a tried a program called "SUPERAntiSpyware". Turned out I had a
Trojan called Vundo. Funny thing is I tried Ad-aware before, which in fact discovered something other than just cookies but appearently didn't clean my PC completly. SUPERAntiSpyware is the way to go
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Another program I recommend is Malwarebytes
https://www.malwarebytes.org/
Do a full scan and after removing the virus it should solve the issue
Hope this will fix your issue :) :)
 
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