Malware?

Does this sound like Malware to you?

Everytime I start my PC I get a svchost.exe error saying that svchost has encountered an error and needs to shutdown. Everytime it shuts down, my audio drivers get deleted and I have to reinstall them(I've not a clue what ELSE it might've changed...). It's gotten so bad, I have to keep my audio driver installation file on my desktop.

It also seemingly prevents me from using my Security Center and Windows Firewall, ect. My McAffee anti-virus cannot seem to detect ANY viruses, and SpyBot and AdAware have already scanned and deleted detected threats.

Yet still it persists.

As far as I know, I am completely patched and updated(everytime I try to download updates it says I have them all...but this could be blocked.). I am running Windows XP Media Center edition as my OS.

Anyone ever heard of or had this problem? I am getting unbelievably annoyed...

Thanks in advance, if anyone responds.

 

There are malware infections that have these symptoms such as the blaster worm that was going aroun a while back, however these should be picked up by any decent AV scanner

Try and work through the below, if your computer trys to shutdown with the 30 second warning Goto Start --> Run and type in shutdown -a and see if this aborts the sutdown.

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