Ok, I was on a page I probably shouldn't have been on and I clicked on a link to download. The download started and I realized it wasn't what I thought it was and cancelled the download almost immediately. Then things got weird: on the bottom right of my display the icon hiding function kept moving left and right and any button I pushed would just make another button activate(such as when I was scrambling to disable my net connection) and i particularly remember going to shut down the computer and pushing "turn off" but stand-by kept hilighting and then it just went into standby mode. Upon successfully restarting my computer a got about a zillion error-reporting things and the analyses ranged from a Mcaffee firewall error (which I uninstalled a long time ago) to a device driver error to I don't even know what else. It always said that the system had recovered from a serious error over and over again after each report was sent. Yikes that got me scared.
SO, I ran my virus scanner, deleted all my temp internet files, searched for new files created today, didn't find anything, ran system restore, the problem came back and when I undid the system restore things seem to be working fine now... but I'm worried. The download had barely begun?!?! It was like my desktop had been taken over or something, anyone heard of something like this before?

the one thing you probably didnt think to do was run a netstat. That would have told you what connections were in or outbound on your pc at the time when your machine freaked. Do you run a router? Does it have a log file?

Before it downloads, it could trigger a script.

Like:

<?php

start function here
evil code here to force down user's throat

present download

end function here
?>



I'd run several anti virus softwares if I were you, and several spy bots detector and anti trojan stuff and just see what comes up. Goto windowsupdate.microsoft.com and get the latest patches for ie6.

fixed that for you

How can I run a netstat? and no I don't have a router and if there was a logfile where can I find it?

I only have the one virus scanner that I got through my ISP, not sure how good it is it's called "Freedom" anti-virus" I ran my spyware programs but I don't have any trojan programs to run. One other thing I've noticed a program called "dvpapi.exe" running and all the searches I've done say it's some kinda anti-virus thing but I don't remember installing it or ever seeing it there before.
o ya I've got my windows updates all updated.

from a command line type netstat
it will display all concurrent connections over tcpip to your pc. You can also run "Nbtstat -A" following the -A switch you would include your ip address. This will tell you what netbios connections you have on your pc.

I still say do the MSCONFIG bit.... check for ULS (unidentified loaded software).

i just did that and yes there are unidentified stuff in there... I guess always turn those off?

Crosscheck the files via google to verify/identify the files. Leave the suspicious files unchecked.