Feels like a virus please help

My computer is acting weird. Almost all programs are no longer working. Everything quits, from system profiler, photobooth, installer, to Quicktime, & QuarkXpress. Programs that open are missing letters in the menu bars and websites like aol also have letters missing. Please help everything worked fine yesterday, and I have tried restarting several times.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
From the fact that you are running 10.4.10 You've had your Mac for quite a while apparently without previous problems.
Let me re-assure you that it's highly unlikely that you have a virus and I'm not aware of any hacker issues likely to affect you either.
I don't know whether you are familiar with routine maintenance procedures which you can do yourself.
Let me start with repair permissions. For this you open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. In the LH column select your internal hard drive, eg Macintosh HD (or whatever other name it has been given), then click on Repair permissions on the RH side. If there is a list of ...is..., should be... and at the end of the process (about 10 mins) 'Permissions repaired'. Run the repair again to ensure that all repairs have been done. It's a good idea to restart the computer. If there is no longer any problem you have solved your problem. Otherwise,
1) Ensure that you have a backup of all files you don't want to lose - buy an external drive (firewire preferably) if you don't already have one, big enough to copy the whole of your hd and use a program like Carbon Copy Cloner for your backup.
2) Startup from the original installation dvd by inserting it, restarting holding the c key til you see the Apple logo. Select your language if that's the first screen. On the next screen go to Tools/Disk Utility but this time do a Repair disk after selecting your hd. If any repairs were necessary rerun this until there are no more unless you get a message 'Repairs unable to be repaired' or similar. If repairs were needed restart as normal and check whether the problem has gone. If still no luck:
3) Download the combo version of 10.4.11 from Apple/Support/Downloads and instal this. After installation do another Repair permissions then check whether the problem persists.
Please let us know which process has given success, if any.
Neville

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