[TheForge] Off topic Computer Yak Virus problem

[Dragons Watch Forge]

First let me apologize for posting a non-blacksmith question on this 
forum.  Please delete if it offends you or you are not interested/can 
not help.

The problem started with my desktop and before I knew it I was replacing 
a hard drive. No virus was found and the tech's think the drive just 
died.  Well at that same time, I started using my notebook till the PC 
was repaired.  Now I believe my notebook computer has a virus, but when 
I run virus check programs such as "housecall" and mcafee they say it is 
clean.  The reason I think it has a virus is one day I turned it on and 
it crashed, when I restarted it most of my windows programs (MS office) 
were no longer in the computer.  I searched the hard drive from dos and 
they were not there. BUT! there was a brand new dir called "someth~1" 
that said "something wrong happened" as a description and contained 1 
application file.  So my question is, has anyone heard of a similar 
problem and is there a fix?

Thanks for your indulgence.

Larry