New Virus "0x00000...008e"

Hi there,

I am a relative novice at computer workings. Two days ago, after going on a website called , my computer started acting strangely. I have Micro Trend PC-cillin software to protect my computer. Yesterday my computer was slow and I had a lot of pop up ads, so I called Geek Squad to help. I was on the phone for 2.5 hours and by the end of the phone call, the Geek Squad Agent feared I had now lost everything on my computer. He told me to take the computer to a Geek Squad location at a Best Buy to have them pull the hard drive and see if anything could be recovered. I currently have the computer in my possession, no work has been done on it since I ended the call with the Geek Squad agent.

I do not know exactly what the Geek Squad agent did to my computer, but I do know this:
- he initially thought it was no big deal, but it got worse as time went by
- many files were removed
- in the end he told me "Congratulations, this is a brand new virus and your computer is the first we know of as having it in the country"
- the agent was working remotely in my computer in safe mode
- the agent had me reboot my computer, then press F8 immediately and that's when a blue screen with white letters popped up, and that's where the virus type "8e" came from
- the agent said the virus was nasty and was running many programs in the background
- the agent said the virus was doing something when the computer was restarted, it would get worse at that point
- the agent was trying to run programs, such as "..config" (things like that) and the computer was not recognizing anything
- the agent was trying to access my programs, such as "iexpore.exe" and the computer said the files did not exist
- at one point early on, while searching through some deep files, the agent saw some odd Windows files. He said he did not recognize them and I didn't either. He said they seemed very strange. He did not delete them. He renamed the file by adding a ".bad" to the file name and moved on.
- in the end, the agent thought I should NOT turn the computer on again and take the computer to someone to remove the hard drive to try to save any possible files.

I have no clue what to do. I have countless priceless photographs on the computer that I am fearful of loosing. I have no back up.

Thanks to anyone who can help,
Sue