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Ouch!
07-11-2004, 01:16 AM
After I found three trojans on my computer, I downloaded adware and spybot to prevent this kind of thing. Today I ran both programs. Naturally they found some problems. I looked over the files that I they wanted to fix or delete. All these files appeared to be things that I had obtained over the internet such as spyware and the likes.

Apparently, that wasn't all that was messed up. Apparently my computer can no longer recognize sound files. I haven't seen if it also screws up my games but I cannot play any of my music. Visuals still work, but as far as the sound goes, it's busted.

Any suggestions?

Dr Unne
07-11-2004, 02:56 AM
Format your hard drive and reinstall Windows. Once you've been compromised there's no way to know if you're clean or not.

Ouch!
07-11-2004, 04:38 AM
I just modified Sound Blaster Live! and everything is working now. I'm glad it worked out without having to do something drastic.