Seeing that you have Kazaa, it's likely that you mistakingly downloaded a trojan horse. It's probably a harmless one (most likely just a hacker prank). I recall a prank program that when run would *look* like it's deleting everything off your hard drive. It was very authentic and had a convincing dialog box showing the names of actual files on the hard drive and acting like it was deleting them.
Hahaha thats awesome. I got a virus once, but I can't even remember what the hell it was or what it did; Norton reported it, and quarantined it, and I had to download a patch to kill it. All is well now though.
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I fixed it right after I posted it, though I'm going to blame windows update or direct x 9 because we all know blaming MS is more fun than some random hacker.
I did a system restore to right after I installed directx 9 because I didn't want to remove it and the windows update I had done right before it, but that didn't work. But then when I did a system restore to before the windows update it was fine, and that restore point was only about 10 minuits before the previouse restore point. So I'll blame MS
I wouldnt go on Kazaa since the U.S goverment to threaten to hack peoples computers for file trading, I deleted kazaa from my pc since I found that it lagged my computer to much.
but atleast I got away with a ass load of metalica music!
The US government hasn't threatened to hack your computer, the recording industy has just threatened to make bogus music files that will do damage to your computer, but they haven't started yet because they are still investigating the legality of doing that