Protected from my own computer

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

In July, I built my own computer and put Windows XP Home on it and I

activated it. Yesterday, my computer was having memory problems and it

restarted but then it became stable. Today, the firewall crashed and I

restarted the machine and now it's asking me to activate Windows. I went

through MS DOS prompt to find there are still WPA files on my computer. What

is going on here? I'm on my mom's computer and I don't think it's a virus

cause my Norton is up to date. Can some one please help? Do I have to

reformate it and put Windows 98 (because this activation thing is upseting

me) on it?

 

I bought Windows XP from newegg.com with the other computer components by

the way.

 

Thanks.

[El Psycho Diablo]

http://www.xp-antispy.org/