Like the title suggests, I got a virus. It's called System Security, it pretends that it's an anti-virus program. It won't let any other program run, not even the ctrl-alt-del task manager. I booted up in Safe Mode and that seemed to keep it from activating, but you know, safe mode. I looked around online and found a couple seemingly reputable programs that claim they can remove it, but none of them seem to account that the fucking virus won't let them be installed, let alone run. Anybody got a clue?
When not in safe mode, if I try to run anything, double clicking an icon or not, a little red System Security alert icon will pop up from the lower right hand task bar and say "blank.exe is infected!" and then not allow blank program to run. I'll follow your advice, many thanks
And now I can't connect to the internet with any browser, and under Network Connections in the control panel there is nothing at all. I'm on a wireless connection, would that have anything to do with it? Goddamnit do I ever hate computers.
Safe Mode disables network drivers, so you can't use the internet while in Safe Mode. To access the internet, use "Safe Mode (with Networking)" instead of "Safe Mode".
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:edit: Goes without saying, do all this in safe mode.
Edit: Can't connect in safe mode that is.
assuming you have the OS disc and key, of course
Pozz my neg ass.
I made the mistake of googling that, still don't know what it means, but it didn't seem uh... sexy? o_O