I used a cracker for a program, and my computer restarted itself. When it came back on, it wouldn't play any Aveyond games, coming up with the code 'Error! Code LP5. Failed to unpack the program. Contact the author' or something to that effect. I contacted the author. No help. I have had no luck with anything - anti virus software, uninstalling and reinstalling applications (Aveyond isn't the only thing affected. Anything new I introduce either thinks it is corrupted, or comes up with the code, and these programs work perfectly well on another computer). Redownloading the installtion files doesn't help. System restore didn't help. Reinstalling the whole OS didn't help.
I have a friend who says it seems to be a virus that messed up with the hardware. If anyone can help... please do.