Great news
viciii3, for you and the
Mrs.!!
As for the "bone", this was a
team effort.
VistaKing,
Slartybart, and
shawn77, all contributed, and all deserve a "bone"!
However, don't want you to hurry off yet...
There were some nasties on that machine, and we want to make sure they are
gone.
Let's go back to the USB flash drive that has
FRST...
Please plug the flash drive into the infected computer.
>>> Restart.
As soon as the BIOS is loaded begin tapping the F8 key until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears.
Use the arrow keys to select the Repair your computer menu item.
Select your language settings, and click: Next
Select your User account and click: OK (If you did not set a password, leave blank.)
On the
System Recovery Options menu, select:
Command Prompt
In the Command window, at the bliking cursor type
notepad and press: Enter
In Notepad, under the File menu select:
Open
Double-click
Computer, find the flash drive letter, remember what letter it is, click on it, and press:
Open
Close out of Notepad.
Click the Command window
Type
x:\frst.exe, and press: Enter
>>Note: Replace the drive letter
x with the drive letter of your flash drive!
The tool starts and prepares to run. Follow the prompts.
Click Yes to the disclaimer.
Press:
Scan
When done, the program saves the
FRST.txt report, on the flash drive.
Click the Command prompt window, and type exit, and press: Enter
Back at the System Recovery Options, press: Restart
When the computer boots back into Windows, please provide the
FRST.txt in your reply.
It is located in the USB flash drive.