Hi Blottedisk;
Well.
None of my browsers will work. Chrome will open but refuses to load any pages, including the New Tab page. IE opens, but immediatly becomes a white, frozen window. Firefox does not open at all. Pidgin, the IM client, also does not open.
The add/remove program application is unable to remove programs - it also just freezes.
Processes do not end on their own. Or at all, really. When I close a program, the process for it continues running in the Processes tab of the task manager. The task manager freezes when I tell it to stop one.
ZoneAlarm only sometimes appears in the task bar, and is stuck on a mouseover tooltip of something like "Security active, UI initializing..." or somesuch, and never gets past that. Can't doubleclick on it to bring up the window, can't right click on it, it never changes from the Z icon into the green and red bars.
Spywareblaster doesn't even pop up when it's icon is double-clicked on. Spybot S&D freezes a few minutes into a scan. About the only programs that run normally are avast! and notepad.
The computer also takes a long time to shut off. It's plagued with "unable to end program" windows.
My computer is basically unuseable. I'm writing this on a different computer.
I think the problem has to do with ZoneAlarm, but really I have no idea. Please help!
