Greetings from TEXAS,
A series of very strange happenings on my desktop and now some very unusual things are occurring on my laptop. This one is still working while the Desktop is OFF until further notice.
Full details are too lengthy, so just to give you some clues:
Yesterday my DkTp would not allow me to run Malwarebytes Antimalware's Chameleon with this message, "Windows cannot find the mbam-chameleon.pif file" giving the location on my H/D.
I looked and found said file. The extension did not show so attempted to 'rename' that file, Windows error window telling me that file did not exist and could not be renamed.
There have also been several times that the system would not boot, did the F8 selecting "Safe Mode" establishing operations and opening a program, not on the web, then shutting down and rebooting with all working as expected, normally. Now have attempted to run System Repair from Original DVD and finding nothing wrong. NO changes made means operations are at a stand-still for now.
All of this done 'Off Line' not connected to a network or Web. Also attempted to do a restore and NONE recently done were found. The last one done that could be found was 6/1/2014 and that would not run. None of the restore points show that are done every time MS does an Update. Maybe I was not looking in the correct place for the RPs done by MS.
Just ran a complete Scan of this computer, Laptop, using Avast! FREE and it NEVER moved off of "0%" AND reported NOTHING found, in just about 15 minutes which usually takes about 45 minutes or more to do a complete system scan.
Any ideas would be appreciated . .