But, in general: your ISO is likely fine. Your documents are likely fine, unless you have programs in there. I'd unplug the network cable (so it can't do bad things online), burn your documents folder to CD, burn the ISO to CD (you might be able to do this in safe mode), then reboot and reinstall Windows.
The "paying $70" makes me think it's one of the fake AV programs that looks sort of like the windows ones. They're not generally horribly vicious.
Are you running a real AV program? And by "real", I don't mean AVG. You need Norton/Symantec, McAfee, the CA one, or ThreatGuard - all the others are junk. If you need a copy of Norton, I get them very, very cheap with employee pricing, and I'll send you one.
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Date: 2010-03-24 04:38 pm (UTC)But, in general: your ISO is likely fine. Your documents are likely fine, unless you have programs in there. I'd unplug the network cable (so it can't do bad things online), burn your documents folder to CD, burn the ISO to CD (you might be able to do this in safe mode), then reboot and reinstall Windows.
The "paying $70" makes me think it's one of the fake AV programs that looks sort of like the windows ones. They're not generally horribly vicious.
Are you running a real AV program? And by "real", I don't mean AVG. You need Norton/Symantec, McAfee, the CA one, or ThreatGuard - all the others are junk. If you need a copy of Norton, I get them very, very cheap with employee pricing, and I'll send you one.