Shit shit shit.

[hazliya]

Posting from elenuial's computer. Mine is useless.

Some stupid virus/spyware got into my computer last night somehow. It started by changing my background and taking out the option to change said background, then made it so that whenever I booted up, five seconds in to moving around on my desktop, the desktop freezes. Anything else that is running gets frozen, and an installation tool pops up for something I've never heard of.

*sigh*

What are my options here, people? I really don't want to have to wipe it. There's a lot on that hard drive that I haven't backed up yet.

Anyone got any ideas?

-H

Comments

[londo.livejournal.com]

There are ways of dealing with this. They can take several hours of walking over to the computer, hitting a few buttons, and walking away for 90 minutes, but they usually restore your computer pretty effectively, and the worst-case scenario is that all your documents/data/etc can be recovered, but you'll have to reinstall all your programs and re-twiddle settings.

I have the know-how but am probably not your guy logistically speaking.

[laurion]

What he said.