After nearly 20 years of PC use, I got my first virus this morning - and it's a nasty one. It started out in my primary user account : as soon as I log in I get a Blue Screen and then the PC reboots. It happens so quickly I can't launch any applications. So I tried one of the other accounts on the machine. That came came up OK, but this virus\/trojan has hijacked all the web browsers on the machine and redirected all Google and Yahoo search results to bogus URLs - so I couldn't do any research on the problem. Eventually, that account Blue Screened, rebooted, Blue Screened, rebooted, and so became useless too.<\/p>\n
I found some apps, by searching the web on a different PC of mine, which claimed to be able to fix this problem; but it looks like the virus has blocked any of those apps from even launching. Mmm, insidious.<\/p>\n
So, I'm going to try going back to a saved restore point. If that fails, I guess a Vista re-install is coming my way! Hooray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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