Hey everyone
I generally keep pretty safe browsing habits, but yesterday I got this nasty google redirect virus, so that google links would redirect somewhere else. I ran spyware S&D, and cleared the firefox cache. Didn't work, whatever, turned the computer off, went to bed. Woke up, turned it on, and now I get this BSOD with this 0x00000024 error (0x001902FE, 0xBA4FB38C, 0xBA4FB088, 0x89B29889). I don't know what those numbers mean to all of you, but the thing won't boot in any of the modes.
Luckily, I dual boot ubuntu and so I'm currently pulling all important files from the Windows XP partition into my external. The hard drive is less than a year old, and ubuntu is working fine, and it's all the same physical hd, so it can't be a dying hard drive. I feel like spyware isn't going to make my pc inoperative, which makes me think spyware search and destroy did something funny to my registry, or something like that.
The question is, short of backing everything up and reinstalling windows, what can I do here? I can fiddle with the windows files through ubuntu, so if it's just something that needs deleting or such, I could do that.
Please help. Thanks
I generally keep pretty safe browsing habits, but yesterday I got this nasty google redirect virus, so that google links would redirect somewhere else. I ran spyware S&D, and cleared the firefox cache. Didn't work, whatever, turned the computer off, went to bed. Woke up, turned it on, and now I get this BSOD with this 0x00000024 error (0x001902FE, 0xBA4FB38C, 0xBA4FB088, 0x89B29889). I don't know what those numbers mean to all of you, but the thing won't boot in any of the modes.
Luckily, I dual boot ubuntu and so I'm currently pulling all important files from the Windows XP partition into my external. The hard drive is less than a year old, and ubuntu is working fine, and it's all the same physical hd, so it can't be a dying hard drive. I feel like spyware isn't going to make my pc inoperative, which makes me think spyware search and destroy did something funny to my registry, or something like that.
The question is, short of backing everything up and reinstalling windows, what can I do here? I can fiddle with the windows files through ubuntu, so if it's just something that needs deleting or such, I could do that.
Please help. Thanks