:o( I am sooo annoyed!!

Ok, here goes, if I don't give all the information anyone needs to help me let me know and I'll do my best to give what is needed. If I am missing something really obvious please feel free to hit me round the head with a rolled up newspaper! Yeah I have followed the clean up guide thing. Any help anyone has would be mighty appreciated!

Yesterday I attempted to download a bitTorrent, the download finished so I restarted my computer. My pc went into the HP logo start up screen and then it just lost it, it was like it couldn't find something on the hard drive, it kept on restarting, never getting further than the blue HP screen. After consulting with my IT whizzkid lodger we decided to try a non destructive system recovery, this worked until it got to 51%, it then displayed the message "unable to find boot.ini" or something to that effect and stopped downloading, just froze, we attempted this 3 more times before giving up and doing a destructive system recovery, this appeared to work fine, apart from the fact, of course, that I had lost EVERYTHING on my computer, GRRRR doesn't even come close as you can imagine. As soon as my pc was turned back on it began to display messages such like:

Message from WINDOWS to ALERT on 4/18/2005 7:58:51 PM

Microsoft Windows has detected two extremely dangerous viri(s) on your computer named

"Mydoom.V@mm" and "Backdoor.SDBot.gen".

Your system is in danger!
Microsoft recommends an immediate system scan.

Http://www.cleanitup.info - Voted #1 by Microsoft/CNN

Http://bugdoc.info

Failure to disinfect WILL cause fatal, irreversible data loss and could cause physical damage to your PC.

It has displayed such messages along with more usual "adware" averaging on 2 every 5 minutes ever since, always in the same format, i.e, says Windows Messaging at the top of the pop up window. I have run out of ideas! What is this and how the hell do I get rid of it?

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

 

Start with this...
Turn off the messenger service:

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to Settings, and then click Control Panel).
2. Double-click Administrative Tools.
3. Double-click Services.
4. Double-click Messenger.
5. In the Startup type list, click Disabled.
6. Click Stop, and then click OK.

 

Thankyou so much, if I knew you I'd hug you, bless ya!

 

45 wpm steady...

 

uh? lol

 

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