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

[mariaklob.livejournal.com]

I would try booting in Safe mode (hitting F8 somewhere in the boot process, I forget exactly where). That cuts out a lot of startup programs and services, which may give you the wiggle room you need to install Spybot - S&D or whatever other tool is available.

[dncingmalkavian.livejournal.com]

Seconded. It might be F2 or F12, it'll tell you what key to hit on one of your loading screens in DOS for the Boot Menu.

[draike.livejournal.com]

Thirding this one. And while you're in safe mode- back up as much of your hard drive as you can, just in case you end up needed to wipe the drive anyway.