IE question

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I got rid of the virus with stinger.exe because the university detected the virus and that's the program needed to get rid of it.

The plan is to reformat, but I'm not going to ditch my essential files.

The IE address bar thing is not due to the website's settings, because it's every site, ones that weren't like that before. And it's not like I hit enter and it says site not found or something, it just does absolutely nothing, like I didn't click or hit enter at all.

Firstly, going back to last good save won't fix this. Secondly, download a commandline version of a virus scanner if you really need to and then run that against your hard drive via a bootable floppy if and only if your drive is FAT32 not NTFS. Thirdly, the address bar thing is a feature of IE. The best solution you actually have to fix it, is to grab IE 6 SP1 and install it. You are probably already on that version, but it will reset various registry settings that will in turn resolve it. As far as not being able to click on links the above should fix that too.

Do you happen to know exactly which virus the University said you had ? Because if so that will help in knowing what to possibly look for in other problems.