Summer, I feel for you...the same thing happen to me in November...I googled Jennifer Grey....and something appeared on my computer that my computer was infected and that was the end of it. I had a trojan. I had to get my computer man in to remove it...I couldn't do anything with my computer. I read somewhere if this ever happens again and you see this statement that my computer is infected that I should shut my computer down completely...don't click anything. I never had a virus or trojan also for about fifteen years...I was so upset...It happen on my laptop...so I was lucky I have a desktop to communicate with the computer forum.

Summer...until RavenCajn gets here, you might want to try this.

Here is a link that might be useful: While You Wait on RavenCajun

Thank you for your response cricketm.

Apparently this one is really ugly. Or, when looking at the fixes yesterday it appeared to be. I just did a search on the computer help forum (where I actually meant to post this thread:)) to see if anyone else had gotten hammered with this Win32Patched and didn't come up with anything.

I wish I had shut it down immediately but my DH has fixed a couple of virus on his computer before so we did some searches and looked for some repair tips and kept trying them but nothing was working. Now it's just trashed. :( We broke down and called a fellow this morning that our neighbor uses. He's coming out around 3 today.

Wish someone could tell me what kind of a kick or thrill these sorry @*%&$# get from doing this to someone's computer. I'd like to meet them face to face. It wouldn't be pretty. Grrr!

I'm off to read the link Bump, and thanks.
PS: Did you get my message this morning to you through your My Page?

No message from yo,Summs! Try sending it to countrybumpkin @ microxl.com

Did you post on the computer forum--with an explaination. Besides raven there are some experts there. You may have to dumb everything. What virus protection are you running? Hopefully it is not Norton.

Ok, and thanks!

No Marie, it's AVG. May have to get something better after this though. ugh! My DH's computer leaves much to be desired. Took me forever to get my thread posted here. I'll c & p my original post and take it over to the computer help forum if I can get this relic to let me.

sorry just seeing this, yes anytime you need me or help come to the computer help forum here.

but that is a bad one so what you will need to do is head over to another forum I am on that can help you run some very special scans that can be used to remove all aspects of the infection.
go here to this forum, you will need to register, then post at the area I am linking to and tell exactly what you told me here. The team there will be with you as soon as possible.
Analysis and Malware Removal

please do not try to follow any one elses thread that may sound similar we have to do scans for each case individually. I will be there watching for you.

Thank you SO much ravencajun. I'll follow your link and instructions.

The question that hasn't been answered and is the most important one is, how do you know you got hit
1) by a trojan; and
2) by this particular one?

AVG is perfectly fine. I've used it and still do on some machines, but remember it's an antivirus program and you say you got hit by a trojan. Granted, it probably will still detect it, but trojans are *not* viruses.

From your symptoms, albeit very vague, you could simply have some corrupted files or you could have something serious, or both. You have some diagnosis to do before giving treatment. Not unlike treating for ulcers when you have diabetes.

Good luck.

No it is definitely infection several others have now reported being infected by going to the foodnetwork site, we are hopeful that they will be able to clean up their site soon but till then I would not be going there.

Summer is being helped at a wonderful support help forum now.
should anyone else get hit please come to the computer help forum and let us know please.

The people at that forum are great. They helped me out awhile ago thanks to the folks at the Computer Help forum.

Luckily a friend's computer repair guy was in the neighborhood and stopped by after hearing we were having trouble. He just threw my hard drive over his shoulder and took off with it. Said he'd have it back to me Thursday and not to worry, he's dealt with this varmint before. He said it's not a virus, it's a spyware. We thought we saw, during a search yesterday, that they were calling it a Trojan/virus, maybe we were mistaken. But, nonetheless, my Sony has gone to the computer hospital and hopefully Matt will be able to clean it up for me.

I so appreciate the responses and will alert the forum folks that they can help another poor soul that has run into computer troubles and that DH and I caved in and allowed a fixit man to take over our problem this time. Thank you all so much!

Wow what timing. I went to foodnetwork looking for a recipe yesterday morning and got a trojan. "Palladium" was all that I could get to come up on my screen. It was my home computer and I'll admit, I know nothing about these things. I called HP support, was on the phone from 11:30 am off and on until 9:00 pm last night. Turned out we had tons of files infected and it was a mess. They performed a pc tune up. Took forever. We have trend micro and they kept saying that was partly to blame. Suggested Norton. Does everyone agree?

I would suggest Avast but what do I know since my ASUS PC now appears to be bricked due to this virus.

I started full scans of my spyware/malware programs last night to try to identify and clean out this virus, which I also got in the course of a recipe search, apparently from the Food Network.

Unfortunately my son got up this morning, saw my netbook sitting there with the clamshell up, thought I'd left it on by accident, and shut it down.

Now it won't boot, not even in safe mode. I know the winlogon.exe file was corrupted and had scheduled a boot scan in Avast, but what it does now is cycle constantly between the blue screen with a message that flashes past far too quickly for me to read it, and the windows boot screen. It never comes up.

Since it was shut down before I got up this morning, I also didn't get to write down my XP license number, so even though I have access to an external DVD and an XP installation disk, I DON'T have a valid license # to enter.

I fear my netbook is bricked, all because of a recipe for apple streusel pie.

zensojourner I posted my reply in your post on Computer help forum please return there.