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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1540934" data-attributes="member: 4144">If indeed it can be helped.  When running a virus scan, it came up that one of my files in the Temporary Internet Files folder was infected with a virus (I forget which).  I deleted that file, which according to that was the only infected file on my system.  Ever since, I'm getting constant messages about the Sasser worm, as I recounted on another thread.  Despite having run virus scans several more times.  What's Sasser do, anyhow?  Now my whole system has gone to merry hell, I think.  Oftentimes, before a problem happens, my monitor flashes and crackles, almost as if there's a power outage for a brief second.  But AFAIK, there shouldn't be.  A few moments ago, the computer deleted a Word file I was working on, for no readily apparent reason.  After it refused to open, but sent me in a looping series of error messages, the icon for the file vanished off my desktop.  Then I got a message saying that an error was caused in KERNEL32.DLL (I *always* get Kernel error messages), by file TAPISRV.xxx (can't recall the extension).  Explorer crashed, and as a result I was forced once again to do a system restore (about the only way I can do anything on this computer anymore).  And for some reason, a restore which normally took 3 minutes tops took upwards of 25.And all this is just within the past hour.All seems to date back to when I installed my digital camera over a year ago.  I shut down the computer that night when I went to bed, and the next morning had the first problem I remember.  It's been about everyday since then.  It seems like anything which alters the .INI files, in particular, plays merry hell with the computer.  I'm bombarded with spam mail here lately, which I think might have something to do with it - whether as the source or another symptom, I don't know.What's going on here?  Some serious virus mojo?</blockquote>

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