Lt.Overload
Rear Admiral
Somehow out of nowhere I got this strange virus which is disguised as an antivirus software called "Antivir Solution Pro" It doesn't let me run any programs and keeps telling me to buy it. Help somebody??
I never got stuff like that personally, but I do know people who have. I didn't think about booting in safe-mode, but basically I had my friend open Task Manager as soon as Windows came up (the virus normally prevented you from opening such programs). Then you could easily kill the offending process and download a real anti-virus to deal with the problem (not the nasty buy-me-or-I'll-pester-you-forever software the virus was spamming).
Uh, did you properly read what I wrote? I said that the virus normally prevented the Task Manager from being opened. That's why it had to be done on start-up, before the virus has a chance to run its own program and block you from doing so.
Oh, very well, then. You didn't really make that clear.