Is this a virus? Nasty enough to be...

From: ttvp (ttvp_at_cox.net)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 19:04:03 -0400

Hello, I am having a real problem with my computer. It seems that yesterday
I left my computer on while I went to work (as usual). When I came home the
screen was, for lack of a better term, fubar. I hard-rebooted the PC, and
after it booted up and I logged back in, the system rebooted itself
completely, instantaneously. I.E. - I type in my password, press enter, and
once the desktop finishes loading, black screen, computer starts up again
from the beginning, with no warning. It does the same for every account,
even the hidden admin. The only way to avoid this is to run in safe mode,
which I am currently doing. I am running Windows XP Pro with, more or less,
all the Windows Updates. The computer is using the Windows firewall and is
behind a router. I also am very observant about e-mail and am experienced
enough to know the difference between a good and bad attachment, and have
enough common sense about opening them. I don't believe in Virus Scanners,
but for the sake of elimination I installed AVG after I noticed the problem.
It couldn't detect a virus that caused this problem. I also ran test after
test online, from Symantec to Panda Scan, as well as Housecall. None of them
could find a virus that caused this. Either that or they destroyed the virus
but damage was done that the scanner wouldn't detect.

Anybody have any advice? I would really appreciate some help in this kind of
situation. 640*480 is doing murder on my eyes.

-T.J.

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