-- Posted by uhhhhh at 4:22 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 ok i have a virus on my computer and its gotten pretty bad. to the piont were we have no choice but to wipe out the whole computer. i need help on how to do this. so any advice would be great. -- Posted by steel at 4:27 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 What makes you think its a virus? What are the symptoms ? -- Posted by cAbLeGuY at 4:27 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 have you tried restoring your computer to an earlier date? -- Posted by uhhhhh at 4:29 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 Quote: from steel at 5:27 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 What makes you think its a virus? What are the symptoms ? its a hacker. it keeps getting into all my shit and downloading crap onto my desktop -- Posted by justaguy at 4:29 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 go to run type in cmd then type /format or something of the nature... google it -- Posted by uhhhhh at 4:30 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 Quote: from cAbLeGuY at 5:27 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 have you tried restoring your computer to an earlier date? yeah well i don't know much about computers so how would i do that? -- Posted by steel at 4:34 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 sounds more like spyware to me... try downloading spybot- search and destroy and run it to clean up your pc http://security.kolla.de/ -- Posted by DemolitionxXxLover at 4:35 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 Hey! This doesn't really help your prob but I do have an MCR fanclub. And I see you have a MCR avatar. You can join. the link is in my signature. -- Posted by cAbLeGuY at 4:35 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 what system are you running like windows 2000? me? xp? mac? -- Posted by cAbLeGuY at 4:36 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 nah if you want something really good try this http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ -- Posted by MissPiggy at 4:43 pm on Sep. 5, 2005 OMG sry I hav liek noooo ideaa. . -- Posted by The PK at 9:27 am on Sep. 6, 2005 Quote: from MissPiggy at 12:43 am on Sep. 6, 2005 OMG sry I hav liek noooo ideaa. . Then why bother posting?! Depending on your OS / PC manufacturer, you may have to manually reformat and reload windows. Most new PC's such as HP, Dell, Packard Bell etc. have a "System Restore" function built in, whereby you reboot the PC, press a button (usually F10 - depends on PC make) and it will do it all for you  (reformat and reload). For others, you can create a boot CD or floppy, from which you can then format the disk and use it to load windows again. (AFAIK, XP on a CD uses the same CD as the boot disk and the OS loading CD). Don't forget that you will lose EVERYTING when you reformat so do make sure to backup files.