Within the last few days ive started to notice large changes happening on my system, and Everything i have tried to do to stop it or find out what it is, has failed. Here are some of the problems that have popped up lately, i have made no major changes or downloads lately:
(I use Windows XP)
1. Randomly, Internet Explorer opens and says my computer is infected and that it will run a virus scan, i assume this is a hijack fake ad, and i close it without clicking on anything, ill try to screenshot it if i can next time i see it.
2. The "Folder Options" in my Control Panel is gone.
3. Everytime i try to search for certain keywords or a certain keyword pops up in my browser, my browser seems to crash as if something doesnt want me to search for these terms, here are some of the terms that crash my browser: Anytime i search google for Malware, Avast, Malwarebytes, my browser will suddenly crash without an error.
4. Anytime i try to run certain anti virus/spyware programs, they open and close instantly without an error. Spybot will not open correctly, it freezes during the loading process. HijackThis will not open, it closes instantly. Avast does the same thing.
Some of the antispyware/virus programs that DONT crash when i try:
Spyware Terminator and Ad-Aware SE. I fully scanned my system with both and they found a few things but only minor threat items.
5. My internet seems to be much slower and it is going on and off constantly, this may or may not be related to my other problems, but it all started occuring around the same time.
I am having a hard time finding out what my problem is since i am unable to run HijackThis or Spybot, im not sure what to do.
Before these problems started, i was able to use all of these programs without any crashing.
I cant even search for my problem in google because it causes my browser to crash (i can search in google but anytime i search for something related to my PROBLEM, it crashes...)