now is not the time for this

[simplyn2deep]

not that there's ever a time for this, but my laptop died.

I was stupid and downloading any program I could find/try to create a slideshow from the Community breakfast my church had this morning. I noticed my laptop was lagging, so i go to restart it and when it comes up, I get my regular welcome screen, so I log in...only there's no desktop! It's a completely black screen! When I press the windows key, nothing happens!

OMG!

Only something does happen. Some system clean up pops up and twice I canceled it (to have to restart my laptop), so this time I let it go through. It then says it found over 2000 threats and the only way to deal with it is to register for the full clean up...only to do that I have to pay like $25! Uhh no!

But I click okay, then by some fluke, a browser opens up for me to pay to get this full clean up. But I don't have the money. so I had to bring up the task manager to force that clean up to close.

I still have my browser open, but nothing else. I'm really scared to restart my laptop in case the same thing happens.

This is my damn life! UGH

Anyone know how I can get my OS back or whatever? If so, please please let me know! I don't want to have lost my pictures and music. Thankfully my writing (and some other pictures) is saved to a flash drive and google docs!



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[lostandalone22.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure system clean-up is what happens when a program causes the system to fail and that if you let the clean-up happen, you'll get your desktop back. That's how it usually works for me, anyway.

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

It was a downloaded program called super optimizer or so,ething. It wouldn't let me remove the "bad" things without buying the "full" version.

I ended up doing a system refresh and didn't lose anything of importance and it tool me back to a point before the program was installed. Now doing a proper scan with the virus protection I previously used.

Just make sure

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

its not one of those viruses that hold your system hostage!

Re: Just make sure

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

I'm like 99% ceertain that's what it was. I did a system restore now cleaning it up with my usual virus scanner.

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

if you can get into it in safe mode then do a system restore to the last point before yesterday, theoretically you should be okay. Then if it works, go get the Microsoft security essentials (it's free and it catches everything). Run it and clean up the hd

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm doing now. I couldn't even get it into safe mode but I found that by pressing the shift key before clicking restart, it will take me to where I can do the system restore.

Now I'm going through cleaning up everything. No more random downloading for me!

[lunachickk.livejournal.com]

Oh, good luck. That's one heck of a nasty virus. :(

[hanorganaas.livejournal.com]

Computer problems are the worse I hope you fix them Soon!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

Working on it. So far so good!

[goneahead]

came over here to tell you to try system restore, but it sounds like you got it :)

yay!!!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Trying to update everything is a pain though.

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

I'd totally recommend downloading Spybot. It gets rid of malware and is free! It's cleaned up so much garbage on my computers over the years.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

I'll check that once I get my computer all updated. Thanks.