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[danhodge]

Okay, I suck at detecting virus's. I don't know a thing - so please take me through what to check first (we did an AVG scan and found nothing).

There is a grey overall over the bottom half of the screen, with the Chromium logo on it. Doesn't matter what I am on, that is just there. Since this is Windows (it is my sisters laptop), I am pretty unsure as to why it is a Chromium logo, and am thinking it must be a virus. Since, well - what the hell would be the point in this if not? Here is a picture of it:

Thanks a lot,
Danny

P.S. I haven't restarted it yet, since I am worried it could just not turn back on (that's what my last virus did).

 

[iFargle]

She has Chrome and Chromium installed? See if you can kill Chromium from the task manager

 

[danhodge]

That's what confused me - she doesn't have Chromium installed...

 

[iFargle]

Even killing all Chrome tabs / running applications doesn't make it disappear? Try restarting explorer.exe

 

[carnageX]

Tried scanning with MBAM?

 

[Yevrag35]

Tried scanning with MBAM?

If that doesn't work, boot into "safe mode with networking", then scan it again.

 

[danhodge]

Oh, I think I found the problem. A program called 'Pokki', which is some Windows 8 software which adds the start menu or something, was running. I closed it from task manager and now it is fine (I am restarting to see if its perminant).

Do you think it tried to add a Windows 8 tile to the Vista desktop or something?

 

[Yevrag35]

Pokki tries to simulate the windows 7 "start button" style instead of using windows 8's "metro" style

 

[KSoD]

Uninstall Pokki and get something like StartIsBack, Start8 or Classic View. All are much better and dont cause issues like this.

 

[iFargle]

I'm confused... This is a Vista laptop, no?