Well. Title pretty much says it all. I'm running Windows Vista, this morning the computer was acting fine, then all of a sudden I started noticing the certain pages had parts of them all over the place as well as text overlapping each other, then I noticed that the cursor (the blinking line when typing text) was being overlapped with a gray block. I tried uninstalling firefox completely and removing temporary files, that didn't work. Besides it's affecting all my browsers.
A bit later whilst downloading numerous scan tools I noticed that "C:/program files (x86)" was completely gone and it's contents seemingly moved to "C:/program files". Also Mozilla's uninstaller won't work anymore, the computer freezes for a few seconds whenever I download a file.
I currently have no useful logs to show, I've just run MBAM and it found nothing.
I will most likely just use my recovery disk, as what few instances I've read of x86 disappearing said that the person was pretty boned.
Update:
Emsisoft Anti-Malware found nothing...
aswMBR found nothing...
Super Anti Spyware found nothing...
Actually it only seems to be showing that grey box on the MSN homepage.
Update 2: Wait... I- I think the little flashing gray box related to Bing's Facebook thingamajig. I didn't install it myself, but it's just a little retractable box that shows alongside searches. Looks legit and it doesn't redirect or anything, but it's not on any of my other computers for some reason...
Then that thing about the pages being scrambled may have just been some unlucky site choices actually. MSN always gives me trouble, but does anyone else have problems with "prequeladventure.com"?
Regardless. The computer has been acting a bit stiff lately and x86 is still missing. If it's all the same to everyone else I may post some log files in the other forum to be sure once I'm done scanning with everything.


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