hiya everyone: can someone pleaseeee help me, last night I got home from work and sat at my computer and right away noticed that a small window was showing in the lower right hand side saying" your computer is infected! windows has detected spyware infection. So I tried to run my anti-virus "avg" but no way,,,it wont even open, update nothing, I am assuming this nasty virus is behind that. So I have ad-aware se, I ran that and it found a virus called"win32 trojan crypt", it quarintined it but then as soon as I reboot the pc it comes back! I have tried everything, I even tried to download "zonealarm pro" to try and pick it up, it downloaded but once again the virus wont allow me to get into this program. I am worried about this virus, believe it or not, over the years I have been very lucky in the way that I havent got viruses till now, I talked to my step son and he said he opened up am email that he thought was from "123greetings.com" he thought someone sent him a greeting as there is such a site but I believe it is "123 FREEgreetings.com" anyway, he said that when he opened that email then the computer shutdown for a brief moment and then rebooted it self and there ya go! damage done. he said that before he opened the email it said beside the sender" 123greetings.com/vice-commodore@cubchina.com". Does any of this sound familair to any of you? I really need help with this and being laid off my job at the end of this week I really dont have the money to buy a software program to get rid of it but if I have to I will so if you could direct me as to what to do and if i need to buy a program,,whats kind would do the trick? thats all, hope to hear from you. oh ya,,,even if i boot in safe mode, i still cannot get into an antivirus program. thanks,,,coorschick