I believe I've just gotten hacked, wierd programs started popping up and I couldn't run full-screen programs, they'd just freeze. So I hit Restart from Windows and suddenly I get a whole bunch of "Ending program XXX" windows, half of them about windows command prompt and MS-DOS. Panicking I immediatly hit END NOW on all of them and watched as my screen went to "Closing network connections..." and hanged there, impatient I hit the reset button and waited for XP to load, going through the usual "NTLDR file is missing." Finaly it gets to the welcome screen. Odd thing, my mouse is rainbow colored, not good. It stays on the Welcome screen for 5mins, finaly the desktop appears, half the icons are missing... crud. Nothing is loading, computer is 100x slower then usual and it's usualy fast seeing as it's 3.4Ghz. So now I'm starting to really panic, I open taskmanager, there's only 17 processes running, all part of windows XP. I wait a bit more, things are starting to open, I open the control panel, determined to shut off my wireless card seeing as I can't remove it without having to disconnect my watercooling tubing. I get into CP, can't open network connection, everything is starting to freeze. I can't get into anything at all anymore, everything is frozen solid.
I managed to get it into Safe Mode, now running Norton, my only AV left, all the others got deleted along with half of my programs, internet is finaly offline.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This happened over an unsecure wireless connection as my main DSL is down due to Comcast having a real bad customer support and not being able to fix the line since last saturday. How do I know I was hacked? Internet access for programs was reduced and programs started opening randomly.
Again, any and all help is very welcome...

Wow, sounds pretty intense.

If possible can you do the usual prework thing. Joe5 should know what do do here. This would be one of those time's I'm glad i have linux as a backup OS.

Thanks for the quick reply.

There is no internet on my computer, I'm currently on the laptop. The computer's floppy drive is nonfunctional and the DVD drive won't work for some off reasong. So no HijackThis unfortunently, I'm working on getting it on there though. I do have Ewido and Ad-Aware loaded and scanning though.

I've managed to HijackThis on the machine. Log is attached

Clean except for these:

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing

But what stardock software do you have installed? And is it free version/demo/warez or registered/paid?

I didn't see your post as I couldn't access the net. I got my computer back online. Chucked Norton into the recycle bin, bought and installed Panda Internet Security, deleted a whole bunch of backdoor and hacking programs as well as 13 trojan horses, recovered all my file. Then Comcast stopped by and fixed the line. So everything is back online and Symantec is officialy on my Black list now.
I also deleted those reg keys just in case. I don't use Stardock anymore, I had the free version, then it expired and I never bothered deleting it.
Thanxs for the help