System Restrictions XP

[Colonelkasatka]

Hello,

Im having a problem with Windows restrictions in XP. For some odd reason, about 2 weeks ago, I was not able to right click on my desktop, I had figured ofcourse it was my mouse. Upon further inspection though, I could right click on my taskbar, but when I selected the properties option, I got a windows error stating "The operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I found that odd as well as the fact when I open up my start menu, my settings and control panel sections have dissapeared, thus giving me difficulties deleting programs etc. I thought that I might have had a virus but ive run several virus scanners, found 2 trojans that were giving me different problems, deleted them and the seetings are still applied. I have also run ad aware, and spybot, and found no spyware threat either. Ive run the scanners many times after I had found those two trojans as well. It doesnt make much sense to me, in all honesty I think I put something in the wrong place or applied some bogus setting in the past and now not know how to reverse it. If someone could please give me some insight on the problem it would be grately appreciated. Thanks guys.

-ColonelK

[pam123]

Is this a home system and are you the administrator for it?
Go into user accounts and check.

[Colonelkasatka]

Yes I am the administrator. It is XP Home edition. I built the PC myself and only have myself for an account.


Thanks

[pam123]

This doesn't look good at all.
If you can't get to those settings then the fact that you deleted the malware may not mean much.
You're security may still be compromised and you may still be running a zombie.
I would err on the side of caution, save what data I can and just reformat.