-- Posted by littlebigwonder at 4:37 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 So, I've had this gay ass virus on my computer seriously.. for months. and it was getting quite old, so today, actually. about 2 hours ago, I reformatted my computer, and well, I THOUGHT it would take everything off of it. wroonngg I am still getting pop ups, and I have windows XP by the way. for some reason, my like toolbar at the bottom, where you click the start button? yeah, it keeps disapeering why do computers hate me -- Posted by carnage44 at 4:38 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 System restore it to a date before the introduction of the virus. -- Posted by imakethetest66 at 4:38 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Format your computer. -- Posted by michael10 at 4:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Computers don't hate you. Bill Gates does. -- Posted by staceylolz at 4:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Back everything up and Image restore. It will go back to the way it was when you got it. -- Posted by sarah is hot at 4:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 the same reason computers hate me lol -- Posted by littlebigwonder at 4:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Quote: from imakethetest66 at 7:38 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Format your computer. and how do I do that? -- Posted by hypnotiq desir3 at 4:40 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 You mean to say you emptied out the entire hard drive, reinstalled the OS and came back to the exact same problem?  Hahaha You should make sure the toolbar isn't on autohide.  And probably install ad block and spyware doctor. -- Posted by straypussy at 4:41 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 give it some loving to cheer it up. and remember: wear a condom -- Posted by brunettechic at 4:50 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 I'm not sure why your computer hates you. Have you been abusing it? -- Posted by imakethetest66 at 5:12 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Quote: from littlebigwonder at 7:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Quote: from imakethetest66 at 7:38 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Format your computer. and how do I do that? You have to make sure you have all your master cd's. Your Windows XP cd, drivers cd, and Application cd (if your computer came with one). Formatting your compute completely takes everything off of your computer, including the viruses your computer is infected with. You need those cd's to install everything back on your computer. If you have all those cd's, then I can give you a website that tells you how or write down the steps for you. Also, you might want to burn all your files you want on a cd. -- Posted by JennyColada at 12:41 am on Feb. 25, 2008 Quote: from littlebigwonder at 4:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Quote: from imakethetest66 at 7:38 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Format your computer. and how do I do that? You said in the OP that you already reformatted yoru computer.   Anyway, that does suck. I've had to reformat my computer before, and I swear it ran MORE slowly than when I had all my gunk, junk, and random crap stored on it. -- Posted by littlebigwonder at 7:12 am on Feb. 25, 2008 Quote: from JennyColada at 3:41 am on Feb. 25, 2008 Quote: from littlebigwonder at 4:39 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Quote: from imakethetest66 at 7:38 pm on Feb. 24, 2008 Format your computer.    and how do I do that? You said in the OP that you already reformatted yoru computer.   Anyway, that does suck. I've had to reformat my computer before, and I swear it ran MORE slowly than when I had all my gunk, junk, and random crap stored on it. I did, but I wasn't sure if, reformatting, and formatting was the same thing, I thought after you reformated it, you had to do something TO format it ? I'm not very.. computer savvy and yeah, it is going a littlleee faster actually