Silly me, clicking download on an unknown file, and within seconds, the usual "Your computer is at risk, download Spyware" pop ups... I was surprized that the AVG didn't catch it as a malicious file, but, no worries, I used Superantispyware (program), and that cleared the trojan, but for some reason, I couldn't get online. IE was as much help as a chocolate tea-pot, but Safari at least gave an error message, which I googled, and found the suggestion to try creating a new user account. Did that, and all seemed to be working fine again, so I set about restoring my preferences, and decided to erase the old user account, and that's when things started going wrong... I'd previously been running Vista OS X, but when I tried to re-install it on the new account, I kept being asked if I wanted to uninstall it, but checking on the install/uninstall frame showed the program as not installed (but saved as a download to the desktop) Might this have had something to do with it? The system is slow as molasses, and most programs are 'not responding'. Attempting to restore the system did nothing (if anything, things got worse) so I was wondering if anyone here might have any suggestions... Any places where I could just download a fresh copy of vista I could download to another PC and then upload to this one? Any other superduper anti-spyware worth running (although every scan says that there are no harmful files on the computer) (or any similar ideas?)
I'm going to call it a night, having spent nearly 24 hours on the problem...
Thanks in advance, amigos