The customer I built the nForce based system for called me tonight. He said his system was running extremely slowly after he downloaded and installed some screensaver and then restarted. He also got a message about a DLL file being missing (msvfw32.dll which is a video related dll).
Thinking perhaps this "screensaver" was incompatible with Windows 2000 I had him go to add/remove programs to try to remove it. After the window finally came up, low and behold the "screensaver" was not listed. Under display properties there were no active screensavers.
At this point I figured a restart into safe mode might be a helpful. (Remember I'm trying to talk him through it on the phone.) Immediately after windows began loading a stop error came up that according to him mentioned "possible virus like activity" and CHKDSK needing to be ran and possible hard drive bad sectors.
It sure seems to me like he's gone an downloaded some virus that is corrupting files on the hard drive. (Either that or a brand new WD drive is going out.)
That means I'll be spending a few hours of my time Christmas Eve hunting down a virus or reinstalling Win2k.
I was wondering if there were any new virus that may behave similarly that any of you have heard of?
