exes

Hi, I am now facing a weird problem with my Seagate 1TB external hard drive. One day, i found that it was not getting detected. When it did, many of the EXEs have disappeared and random TMP files are scattered around various folders, bearing names like: trz3A7B.tmp, trz69F7.tmp, etc. So...

When we open Task Manager in Windows, then we can see the processes running under the current user's context. Sometimes it happens that the names of the processes are shown with short file names such as MyNote~1.exe instead of MyNotepad.exe. Why this happens? Does anybody knows? While searching...

My computer was working fine till I reinstalled AVG 7 (coz it had not been working for a long time) and guess what - It found some 500 files (all exes) infected by Win32/Parite. So now loads of files in my Windows folder, my MS office etc. all are infected. Also, AVG constantly pops up...