I may disappear for a few days, i have an ongoing situation with my computer, that i have had fixed 3 times, it is brand new, i bought it December 24th, and if it is not one thing, it is another. Everytime i bring it in, they say it is a virus, and then i brought it home from being fixed, I turned it on, and it was doing the same thing, so i called the people that can fix it online, and they tell me it is a virus too, how can it be a virus if it just came home from having a virus removed? Then they tell me it was a bad component, and it should be fine now, and now it is worse than it was to begin with. So if i am not around for 2-3 days, if not longer, it is because my computer is being fixed AGAIN!
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That sucks, find a nerd or a geek they might fix it for free.
Fortunatly i bought the warranty for 100 bucks to cover 1 year of protection if anything goes wrong, from top to bottom, that was the smartest thing i could have done.
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That’s sucks the same thing with my ma’s laptop she’s sent hers in I think 4 times since she bought it.
Try downloading Search and Destroy virus detection/cleaning I haven’t used it for a couple yrs cuz I’m using a tablet now and they use different programs.
When I did use it on my ma’s laptop it was safe and free, it also worked.
Good luck with your pc it sucks being without net access.
I didn’t realize how dependant I am on the net until I was out in the middle of nowhere without access.
If you do use Search and Destroy virus detection/cleaning, please let us know if it worked. I have some issues with my laptop but they’re not bad enough to pay anyone to fix it.
The free version of Malwarebytes is also good, give it a try: It might pick up any nasty’s that they didn’t find. https://www.malwarebytes.org/
Also get yourself a decent virus scanner, I use Avast free and is good these days https://www.avast.com , but I used to use AVG free.
I tried Malwarebytes and it fixed several problems I was having with performance. (Computer performance that is ; ).
Once you get your system running again do some data backups… Preferably burning them to optical disks. I keep a lot of backups: Crash plan, external HD, Burned to dvds and bluray plus keep things I am working on in Dropbox. I have about 120gb of music, 40gb of photos, some music and art projects and a lot of word docs. I fit everything onto about 8 25gb Blu-ray discs. I bought an external USB burner and discs on Amazon for about $100. CDBurnerXP is shareware that does a decent job in spanning discs.
The new Sata hard drives they use nowadays seem to fail quite often within five years. What stinks too is that they sometimes mangle and corrupt your data without you realizing it so you can’t be sure your backup isn’t corrupt too.