Good afternoon and thank you in advance for this wonderful forum.
Have an EMachines T5048 that I recently used System Restore on. I installed a new MB fan it has been working like a charm for the past few weeks.
I awoke this morning to find a slew of porn/ viagra sites open- as well as the AV Security Suite issue. It almost got in the wee hours of the morning- but I went online and found out I was in a bit of trouble. Selfishly, I felt a bit better knowing I wasn't alone. Misery was fond of company on a small scale.
I made the LAN changes, went into safe mode, and ran Malwarebytes (which ID'd some bad stuff which was removed), rkill (all versions- didn't show anything), as well as Spybot (4issues resolved). I gleefully rubbed my hands together upon restarting my PC (I may have erred here- as the PC wasn't shutting down in a timely manner- 2-plus minutes- so I manually turned off the PC.
Now, after the Windows logo I get a black screen with moving cursor, and cannot boot. Trying again into safe mode gets me a black screen with "safe mode" in all corners. Tried all options- and nothing. I think I made it worse...
I'm hesitant to find fault in the vid card or MB as the PC was running graphic heavy games just last night.
Is there a relation between this annoying malware, the fix, and the black screen of near death?
Hopefully there's a PC Angel who can get my #1 home pc back on the chain gang?
Have an EMachines T5048 that I recently used System Restore on. I installed a new MB fan it has been working like a charm for the past few weeks.
I awoke this morning to find a slew of porn/ viagra sites open- as well as the AV Security Suite issue. It almost got in the wee hours of the morning- but I went online and found out I was in a bit of trouble. Selfishly, I felt a bit better knowing I wasn't alone. Misery was fond of company on a small scale.
I made the LAN changes, went into safe mode, and ran Malwarebytes (which ID'd some bad stuff which was removed), rkill (all versions- didn't show anything), as well as Spybot (4issues resolved). I gleefully rubbed my hands together upon restarting my PC (I may have erred here- as the PC wasn't shutting down in a timely manner- 2-plus minutes- so I manually turned off the PC.
Now, after the Windows logo I get a black screen with moving cursor, and cannot boot. Trying again into safe mode gets me a black screen with "safe mode" in all corners. Tried all options- and nothing. I think I made it worse...
I'm hesitant to find fault in the vid card or MB as the PC was running graphic heavy games just last night.
Is there a relation between this annoying malware, the fix, and the black screen of near death?
Hopefully there's a PC Angel who can get my #1 home pc back on the chain gang?