Vista - Virus???

I've away for a couple of days and I've just turned my computer back on, it was all fine entered my password at the login screen, then once I got to the desktop it was back to how it orginally was when i bought it and everything has been deleted but in actual fact nothing has been deleted it's all hidden if I open my HDD and search for somthing like a song it will come up and say the right directory but if i open the music folder nothing will be in it.

I also tried scanning for viruses and I have about 277GB of data on my HDD and it only scanned 7000 files and took 2 minutes.

Any ideas???


Cheers.

what AV did you scan with?

Anyway I personally would reccommend avast home edition which is free for personal use and is fully featured. It will prompt when first installed to perform a boot time scan which should be set to check all local drives and full scan. I assure you that that will take more than 2 mins. .

Did anyone have access to the laptop when you were away - It could just be someone's idea of a joke

I agree with using Avast as a free alternative. There are some other malware freeware programs you can use as well. Take a look at this thread for some x86 and x64 ideas: Short List of Utilities for Vista