Vista constantly giving updates and IE won't work.

[Chaos2011]

About 24 hours ago, Vista told me that it had to update (that shutdown icon with the little update shield on the start menu) so I did. when it reboots it tells me it has to install service pack 1. I thought it was a little weird because I thought SP1 was a bit old, but I just shrugged it off and let it update. Ever since then, my wallpaper changed to one i used LONG ago, my monitor positioning changed to about 2 inches to the left (I fixed that by factory rebooting the positioning of the monitor.) and my steam favorites decreased by about 10. Also it has told me i needed an update about 4-6 times since the first one.

The things I've tried to fix it was to install SP2 but it told me I had to install SP1 :/ so I do that and it says it was unable to install SP1.

If anyone knows how to fix it, that would be wonderful. Thanks in advance.

[Second-gear-of-]

There are viruses that simulate windows updating, and that sounds like what happened to you.
Stop using IE, you will get quite alot less viruses.
Also, what is your AV?

[Chaos2011]

[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;17027492]There are viruses that simulate windows updating, and that sounds like what happened to you.
Stop using IE, you will get quite alot less viruses.
Also, what is your AV?[/QUOTE]

I'm using Firefox right now and AV? I assume that means antivirus and I use the free 3 year trial of mcafee that came with my computer which was probably only about a year ago

[Second-gear-of-]

MCafee is rubbish if you even want protection.
Free ones, that are better than Mcaffe:

[url]http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html[/url]
or
[url]http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition[/url]

A good paid one with a cool dude on the main page:
[url]http://www.eset.com/[/url]

Spyware protection (free):
[url]http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html[/url]

Avast! also has a little anti-spyware built in.

[Chaos2011]

[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;17027743]MCafee is rubbish if you even want protection.
Free ones, that are better than Mcaffe:

[url]http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html[/url]
or
[url]http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition[/url]

A good paid one with a cool dude on the main page:
[url]http://www.eset.com/[/url]

Spyware protection (free):
[url]http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html[/url]

Avast! also has a little anti-spyware built in.[/QUOTE]

I guess I'll go with avast. Thanks loads, will report back when finished

[Chaos2011]

[QUOTE=Chaos2011;17027784]I guess I'll go with avast. Thanks loads, will report back when finished[/QUOTE]

Well I got Avast, it scanned before it even got into windows, found two trojans and deleted it. I get into my account and the problem still persists. Does anyone have any other ideas?

[BananasGoMoo]

also get spybot s&D, it might be spyware as well?

[Chaos2011]

[QUOTE=BananasGoMoo;17032035]also get spybot s&D, it might be spyware as well?[/QUOTE]

well Second told me that avast has antispyware so...

[BananasGoMoo]

[QUOTE=Chaos2011;17032151]well Second told me that avast has antispyware so...[/QUOTE]

its not very good compared to Spybot in my opinion.

[Second-gear-of-]

Yeah, it only does a little anti-spyware, since its main objective is to find and remove viruses.