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I know. I'm an idiot. Help me anyway?
« on: October 31, 2007, 05:26:49 PM »
Well, here's the deal. I downloaded a PDF of the Anarchist's cookbook 2000. I have no violent intentions, i just wanted to know what's being made available to our garden variety psychos.
ANYway, i opened it, and it released a Virus into my computer so that now if i try and open a .JPG the computer shuts off. If i try and make Thumbnails of the Jpgs in a folder, it shuts off. If i run my Antivirus (Avast) on a folder containing JPGs, it shuts off.
I ran a PC checker thing, and it did NOTHING. I'm screwed right now because i run my own business designing Greeting Cards, and.. If i can't access .JPGS, i'm ruined.
HELP.

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Re: I know. I'm an idiot. Help me anyway?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2007, 05:54:55 PM »
Did you try to restart in Safe Mode, and run your AV program from there?

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Re: I know. I'm an idiot. Help me anyway?
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2007, 06:01:52 PM »
Also you may want to list what protection programs you currently have...
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