Danger, Will Robinson. >.<;

[evanae]

I don't think many of you have my Hotmail email address (I only have it for MSN messenger), but

IF YOU RECEIVE ANY EMAIL FROM THAT ADDRESS DO NOT OPEN IT.

My lovely friend got a virus and it send like 10 emails to my inbox, I knew it was virus spam and went about deleting the messages except I kinda accidentally opened two of them. I thought that I'd be fine if it were only just opened, I didn't d/l any attachments or click on any links, but nope. Guess not. My laptop is currently infected. I can turn it on fine but when I try to click around to do things, nothing happens. It's like it's frozen but cursor still moves.

I think I know what to do: take out the laptop's hd and take off all files I want saved then reformat the whole thing. The prob is I don't have the tools for it (hd reader thing? or something...) Can anyone offer any help? ^^; It'd be VERY much appreciated. I'll buy you DINNER. Srsly.

Comments

[iroha573.livejournal.com]

Can you look up instructions on how to open up the case and take the HD out? If you get the HD out, Fry's sells external cases for laptop size drives (maybe $10-20). Then you just put it in the case and hook it up (USB) to another computer, it should read as an external drive.

I did the same thing last year when my HD was failing :). I'm on a mac, but it should be the same on a PC.

Maybe you can boot off of a CD so that it wouldn't autoload any of the stuff on the HD? Then you wouldn't have to take out the HD at all.

[evanae.livejournal.com]

I think I may do what you're suggesting. I may have more viruses than I know of...might as well just reformat the whole thing. :| Thank you!

[tinted-glass.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be of any help, but I'm sure my dad would be willing to assist. AND HEY, THEN YOU CAN TAKE ME OUT TO DINNER AND ENSURE THAT I EAT GOOD FOODS. WIN/WIN.

XD

[evanae.livejournal.com]

Haha, dork. ♥

I'll bug you so you can bug your dad if I can't fix this myself. Thanks for offering up your dad's free time to help save my laptop. XD

[ziggybecket.livejournal.com]

Well that sucks. Do you know what virus it is? Maybe you can boot into safe mode or off a bootable disc instead of taking out the HD.

[evanae.livejournal.com]

The Hotmail one that I think I may not have gotten is the one that spams emails to ppl in your contact list w/ the subject line of "good game, I've played for a moment for free=".

I'm not thinking I either have some other virus or maybe laptop's just crapping out on its own for my desktop to freeze like that. :|