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Well, after almost a week of "my-computer is stupid", we have it up and running again.
Last Wednesday (I think), my computer was running kind of slow, so I decided to do some maintenance. I downloaded and ran ad-aware. Of course it picked up a few things. But as it scanned, it also picked up a virus. And it looked like it might be in my system files, which means Norton couldn't clean it unless I booted in safe mode. No problem, right?Well, that's what I thought. My first attempt (using the F8 key as it booted, didn't work. IT stopped mid-boot and then proceeded to boot normally. Then I tried changing the system configuration. Bad idea. No matter what I did from then on, the computer would try to boot in safe mode and just choke about half way through.
And I didn't have a boot disk.
Well, to make a long story short (too late), it took me a week of finagling before I managed to make a boot disk on my computer at work using my re-installation CD. I did my best to clean the virus, but it may still be lurking. IT's hard to say with some of these nasty buggers.
Last Wednesday (I think), my computer was running kind of slow, so I decided to do some maintenance. I downloaded and ran ad-aware. Of course it picked up a few things. But as it scanned, it also picked up a virus. And it looked like it might be in my system files, which means Norton couldn't clean it unless I booted in safe mode. No problem, right?Well, that's what I thought. My first attempt (using the F8 key as it booted, didn't work. IT stopped mid-boot and then proceeded to boot normally. Then I tried changing the system configuration. Bad idea. No matter what I did from then on, the computer would try to boot in safe mode and just choke about half way through.
And I didn't have a boot disk.
Well, to make a long story short (too late), it took me a week of finagling before I managed to make a boot disk on my computer at work using my re-installation CD. I did my best to clean the virus, but it may still be lurking. IT's hard to say with some of these nasty buggers.