Serious computer problem. Need help asap.

[Tyrannis]

Yesterday my computer suddenly stoped letting me log onto my full profile. Instead it logs me into a "temporarily" profile.

It keeps telling me that my files will be deleated from this profile and if i want to prevent this, i have to shut my computer down and wait awhile.

Ive done that, and still no change.


Is there anything i can do to salvage my profile?  

[ink]

sounds like a virus.......safe start.....run, Malware bytes.....

[cattb]

Could be something corrupted also. Could also try error checking your drive.

[Dragon]

I'm with Ink on this one although I've never heard of or seen what your describing.   

[cattb]

I have had this happen. Different though, computer message saying something about not being able to get my profile and logs me in under temperary. The part about deleting though. That I have never seen.

[ink]

ive seen it.....at least very similar....I had a duel OS so signed into the other OS and removed the file that was causing it.....malware should find it though.

[AAJagerX]

If Malwarebytes doesn't find anything, try a system restore and roll it back to a date that everything was working correctly.

[Rob52240]

DID TOO!!!

[morfiend]

try hijackthis!

 if a system restore doesn't help you could run hijackthis and get the report!

  Not sure if they're still around but bullgard allows you to use their software for a trial,they will supply support for this too.  They suggest you run HJT and send them the report and will direct you to a solution.

 Afew years back my system was taken over and part of an email bot,I was using norton so I thought I was covered....    Turns out this bot setup house in norton in the quarantine folder,a subfolder called"quarantine" so norton all but ignored it.

  I'm no expert but my machine was doing similar things when that bot was infecting it.


    YMMV.


   

[steely07]

This will fix it

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6676

Salute

Steely

[BoilerDown]

I've seen something somewhat similar on Windows NT back in the day, when the hard drive was full.  So make sure your hard drive isn't full.  But that's all the advise I've got.

[Dichotomy]

Ty

Once you have it fixed stay off of those tentacle websites okay? 

Good luck little buddy

[Tyrannis]

This will fix it

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6676

Salute

Steely

It will not allow me to download it. It says there is a problem with the package.
A program run as part of setup did not finish as expected. Please contact your support personel or vendor.


I havent tried that run in safe mode way yet.

[Dichotomy]

That's kind of your only hope as I see it at the moment Ty...

Either that or a rip and rebuild. 

I'd try shooting Gyrene, Gpwurzel, or Ink a pm to see how to recover your data if you can then do an R&R.  Get some good virus protection, install Firefox with noscript and adblock, and watch where you browse and what email attachments you open from then on. 

Bottom line is it sounds like you may have screwed the pooch and you might have to pay the piper.

Sorry man it sucks and I've been there and dealt with it when Squid and my ex stepped on their cranks. 

Good luck regardless.

[steely07]

It will not allow me to download it. It says there is a problem with the package.
A program run as part of setup did not finish as expected. Please contact your support personel or vendor.


I havent tried that run in safe mode way yet.

Have mirrored it here for you :

http://users.tpg.com.au/steelyj//UPHClean-Setup.msi

Make sure you have windows installer 2.0 installed (you should already)

Which OS are you running?

Steely