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Tech Clinic / can't even boot up...

« on: August 12, 2005, 08:53:25 AM »

I recently managed to get that nasty spysheriff program onto my computer at work (no idea how it got there).  This was on Wednesday, and I was working on cleaning up my PC and eventually ran out of time.  I had Thursday off and now I came in this morning thinking I was going to have to spend a good chunk of the day gettin this thing off.  Well, now I can't even boot up my computer...not even in safe mode.  I can log in to our network, or onto the computer itself OK, but once it "loads" I get nothing but a blank screen...pressing ctrl+ alt+del and going into the task manager shows nothing that shouldnt be in there, although when I'm not in safe mode I can't even get into the task manager at all :-(

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated...I'm running XP Professional.

My only idea was to find the XP disk and repair from that...but I can't boot from a disk either, not even a floppy.