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I recently got a virus. I'm not able to use any programs. (I'm on a different computer) Whenever I open a program, it either crashes, or it won't open. I can't even restore it. No virus scanners will open. Any suggestions?

Get a Ma*snipetohead*

Um.

How did you get onto the internet?

I've never heard of any virus that does this, I have no idea. Does it come up with an error or do all programs just automatically close or stop?

invertin wrote:Um.

How did you get onto the internet?

Sandurz wrote:(I'm on a different computer)

There ya go, Invertin.

Apart from that, I

invertin wrote:'ve never heard of any virus that does this, I have no idea. Does it come up with an error or do all programs just automatically close or stop?

I've also got a virus, lucky for me it's not as bad, it managed to send virus messages to my friends on facebook. It's not gone but it's stopped, it can't do anything

invertin wrote:I've never heard of any virus that does this, I have no idea. Does it come up with an error or do all programs just automatically close or stop?

They just close, and sometimes I get the blue screen of death, as my brother calls it. It's really annoying, since I have to go to the library to do homework.

If you can't boot up your computer or run any programs, you may just be out of luck. I think that avast! antivirus may be able to do a boot scan from a CD, but I'm not sure. I actually doubt it.

The best thing you can do in my opinion is get a Linux Live CD (I recommend Ubuntu), boot it, mount your Windows partition from it and copy over any important data to a thumb drive or whatever. Then install Ubuntu and don't worry about viruses. Or reinstall Windows. Or both. Whatever you fancy.

Just yesterday, I moved important files to an external drive, then somehow managed to revert it to factory settings. But now I can't use Microsoft Office, and I lost the keys.

Sandurz wrote:Just yesterday, I moved important files to an external drive, then somehow managed to revert it to factory settings. But now I can't use Microsoft Office, and I lost the keys.

AbiWord or OpenOffice.org Writer are good, free alternatives that can do most of what Microsoft Office does.

Thanks! I'll look into them.