An invisible virus

[jholland1964]

Here is something to try with Photoshop;
If Photoshop is acting weird, try resetting the preferences back to their default settings.

1) Save your work, and close the program.

2) Start the program, and press and hold Alt + Control + Shift immediately after the program begins to launch.

3) Click Yes to delete the preferences file.

[mehndeke]

deleted the preference file, loaded an image, closed the image, then closed the program. Same error still occurs.
On the brighter side, I found the Ventrilo file, un-read-only-d it, and now it works like it did before all this began, and Google desktop now loads fine as well after all the cleaning went on. So progress is being made =).