Well, you should know about this by now...

Somehow a virus or something has infiltrated my computer and turned off auto protect on my Norton Anti-Virus software.

No matter what I do I cannot enable it. I do not think I have any installation software available and so uninstalling and then reinstalling seems unlikely.

I have done almost every virus/trojan check under the sun, and after cleaning as much as I can, I have found there are still a number of things that i just cannot get rid of. No matter what software I use, after deleting, they just come back. Most of the AV software don't even pick them up.

I will post a hijack this log soon, but in the meantime, how can I sort out Norton? I know alot of people have this problem at the moment, and so ever time i go online to try and scan or check something, I run the risk of getting an even worse virus.

As it currently stands every time I go online after 20 mins, my computer usually crashes...

so please, HELP ME.

Any ideas?

I'm sorry to hear that you reformatted, but I'm sure it's running smoothly now (I would hope so!). I know how to fix auto-protect on Norton. Something removes a file from Startup that it needs for auto-protect. Just a simple registry edit is all it takes to put the file back into Startup. Having any problems?

Michelle