Inactive [InActive] IE and Firefox will not Start after Virus Removal

Hi

I am running Firefox on a Vista Computer. All was well until I got a virus entitled puper.dll (trojan). Mcafee was able to remove this virus and I received another virus that required smitfraudfix to fix (name unknown). Once I had cleared the computer of these viruses I was no longer able to run either Firefox or Internet explorer (strangely safari continues to work).

I also still randomly get sent to other web pages making me think that there are still some virus / malware. I have run smitfraudfix, spybot search and destroy as well as Lavasoft ad-aware.

I have found some ideas but they all seem related to xp as they first discuss finding the xlt file which doesn't seem to exist on Vista.

Thanks,
John H

 

Thread Moved

HI All,

At the suggestion of Pete I have moved this thread to malware and viruses.

Thanks,
John H