Lost Admin rights, Systray icons, printers ..

Hi

I have a win XP home OS. I have different user accounts set up.
Children accounts are restricted. I run McAfeee security suite.
Last week I noticed that while on a Parent account( admin rights) I was informed that I could not access a site due to restrictions of a certain child account. I thought it strange, but I am running a MS OS so no biggie? Wrong!

The next day I logged in and noticed my sytray was void of network icons etc. There were only a few oldies. McAfee, Clock and two others. When looking in control panel network etc. there was nothing. Also later I discovered the same for printers. I tried running a scan with McAfee but it starts up and then disappears. I then tried installing other demo's from AV fame, but then got told that I have no admin rights. I ran a Kaspersky online and no viri were found. When looking at user accounts In both normal and safe mode , I and the Admin accnt. has admin rights, but everything else behaves like a severely restricted account. I can still access Inet and some url blocking by McAfee is still observable. However I fear compromise of my data and pesrsonal info and logins while using the internet.

I suspect malware or malfunction of Win XP.

I have run Norman_Malware_Cleaner.exe form MG but the problem still pervails.

I do not have experience with keeping the system & data in tackt and removing such deviant software. :confused

Please help.

 

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