XP Pro--"My Computer" Dialog Not Well

From: W. Wat son (wolf_tracks_at_invalid.inv)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:33:41 GMT

I turned off my computer last night and when I fired it up today, the boot
process to Win was really slow. Once I got logged on it was again slow to
populate the desktop with icons. I had planned to backup some files, and
found that My Computer would appear but not any knowledge of my system's
drives. I then dialed out, brought up Moz 1.7, got e-mail, and browsed the
web. I went off to My Documents and was able to retrieve any that I wanted.
Back to My Computer with the same result. Each time I cancelled My
Computer, it would bring up a dialog that asked either to end the program
or cancel. When I ended it, it killed the dialog, but took several minutes
to repopulate the desktop icons.

I ran NAV, which was current as of 12/15/2004 (or thereabouts), and found a
virus that was deleted, v32[].kergo, I believe. I'm still seeing the same
behavior.

I just rebooted after the scan, and have been able to use My Computer to
see a list of files on my C: drive, but it was quite a haul getting there.
When I decided to return up a level, it went into stall mode again.
However, I can pretty well do other things like use the internet.

Are there any viruses out there that act like my description above? Maybe
something since the middle of December. 

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