Something went wrong on my comp after downloading from limewire....

Hi,

I was trying to get the program Sony Vegas for my computer and my dad suggested that I download it off of Limewire but not to open the file in case of a virus... he told me he would open up the file onto one of his computers to see if the file contained any viruses.

But me being as curious as I am, opened the file onto my three year old computer... and the file definitely contained some sort of virus, but I don't think that's the only reason my computer has gone bad.

Basically, after I had opened the file, I got scared so I ran a virus check, and deleted everything I had downloaded. My virus check said it had deleted the Trojan virus and other smaller kinds and my computer was back to normal for the rest of the night.

I didn't go back on it until two days later, yesterday. When I'm at the menu where I can choose from different accounts to go on (not sure what that's called) I click on mine, write my password, but then it gives me two messages saying "the application failed to initialize properly (0x0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application." This also happens when I try to change the background on my computer and when I try to go on add/remove programs, So I can't remove Limewire...

I was still able to sign in on my account, but all I got was my background, there was no icons, no start menu or anything. I pressed CTRL+ALT+DELETE and pressed new task and was able to get onto any of my folders or browsers. So I came upon this site, and read one topic that had a similar problem to mine and they said to press new task and write "explorer.exe" so I did and it returned everything.

Now, the next day, it does the same thing all over again, no background, the messages, so I did "explorer.exe" and it worked again, but I'm not gonna want to do that everything I sign onto my computer... I still can't go on add/removed programs OR change my background... which is the other reason I think my computer has gotten a virus or something...

About a month a go, I changed my background to a famous soccer player, and my computer was fine. Then, all of a sudden, Fabio Cannavaro was gone, and my background was now blue. I didn't really think there was anything wrong, so I left it the way it was.

When I turn off my computer, the Fabio Cannavaro background comes back for a few seconds, but there's no desktop icons or anything then my computer shuts off.

I dunno if that has anything to do with why my computer isn't working, but I thought I'd put it out there...

its funny that your dad recommended limewire....


limewire is trash and by now people should know before thinking of using it that its not a good idea to even install it.