Thanks for the concern Gentlemen. I did a virus test as soon as I became aware of the problem & this showed no viruses. However, I decided to do a download of latest viruse (Norton Utilities/symantec) which then produced 21 virus infections when I did a second test. These were
1. Trojan Horse infecting Widows\system\kdll.dll
2. w32Badtrans.B@mm infecting windows\system\kernel32exe (2 hits shown for this)
3 w32Badtrans@,mm.enc (infecting recycled bin mainly, which I have now permenently deleted the files from).
I have managed to clear the
w32badtrans@mm.enc, but the others remain. I can not repair or quarantine, I could only EXCLUDE!
I fear my only option now is to delete files as in 1. & 2. above. Have you any suggestions as to how I can obtain/download kernel32.exe & kdll.dll to reinstall these on my computer? (That is if they are important to keep on the computer - if not, I will just delete them!).
Hope you can put my mind at rest on this - at the moment I am feeling quite iseless!
Many thanks for any help / advice you can give - Grahame.