files gone missing

can someone please help me?
i just spent the whole day a few days ago doing 2 assignments and today when i turn on the com i cant find them anymore.
i feel so angry at the com because i don't know if it's because of it tt caused me to waste my time n effort on assignments that just vanished into thin air.
my com has been weird all this while, with constant norton anti virus msgs popping up about the spybot.worm and downloader.
plus on firefox sometimes if the browser stays at a certain pg for too long a while, when i want to go to other addresses, i have to like click again n again n again till i c the stop sign actually turns red n the com finally like processes this request of mine n finally attempts to bring me to the pg.
i have tried search n nothing seems to have been found. i searched my d drive, c drive, my documents, recycle bin...
i am desperate. can someone give me some advice please?

 

Norton maybe

Hello,

Take a look in the Norton protected trash, or in any Norton quarantine for your lost files. Suggest you do a Norton scan to root out any virus. Also suggest you do a regclean (registry cleaner). Look on the internet for a good reg cleaner. PS, Norton has given me enough fits that I replaced it with Zone Labs Security Suite. Good luck.