PC probs

[erastes]

something horrible happened to my PC last night, I went to a vureel site (NEVER GOING THERE AGAIN) from STC and got hit by a virus, a bloody Trojan Horse called Security System.  What it does is launch a fake security programme which promises to clean your pc and goes nowhere.

So I did an urgent anti-virus sweep and according to my virus and spyware – did belt and braces – the damn thing is gone, but it has fucked my computer up royally.  A lot of my shortcuts have vanished, and I can’t even access desktop help.  FUCK FUCK FUCK.

So, I know I can tell my PC to restore to yesterdays settings but I can’t access the help to tell me how to do this. the help has gone!!

PLEASE can someone access their help (I use windows XP on this PC) and copy the instructions for me?

*desperate and scared!!!!*

Comments

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Can you shut it down, then bring it up in safe mode by continuously tapping F8 as it starts up? On my XP machine, that would bring me a safe mode menu which included a choice of 'restore to previous version' (or some such verbage, can't recall exactly what it said) but would allow me to roll back the PC to the last restore point.

So sorry - those types of programs are insidious and evil.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i'll try that, thanks!

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Found some actual instructions - Good luck!