blegh
Ugh. Spent most of friday and part of this evening troubleshooting my pc after what was probably a nasty trojan slipped past my firewall and made it impossible for me to log onto any accounts on my machine anymore... In the end I was able to fix the error by using a bartPE boot disk and diving into the registry, and copying some backup files from my Windows XP installation CD. Sadly a lot of user settings and some device drivers were lost in the process.
Now that I've recovered the driver for my Ethernet card and downloaded a handy little freeware tool that'll help me recover my other drivers I figure I might as well format the entire pc and reinstall Windows from scratch - I backed up the important files to my external HD anyway so I might as well clean the entire thing while I'm at it. Hell, it's been a year without any serious pc trouble like this, I suppose I was overdue for something like this to happen. ;P
Now that I've recovered the driver for my Ethernet card and downloaded a handy little freeware tool that'll help me recover my other drivers I figure I might as well format the entire pc and reinstall Windows from scratch - I backed up the important files to my external HD anyway so I might as well clean the entire thing while I'm at it. Hell, it's been a year without any serious pc trouble like this, I suppose I was overdue for something like this to happen. ;P