Please could advise if there is anything I could do, or should I simply buy a new laptop? All scans inc microsoft show I am safe and fine. Oh, to top it off, all security is rendered useless by the optix trojan so there is no point with mbam, etc. I am locked out of bios by a password, and now I am wondering if it is possible I could regain my original exe. If I try to remove on re-boot, it fails to start and Windows puts it back as it was, I am guessing because of the scripts. I have vb script files, hundreds of binary strings and two extra users in regedit, my http is proxy autoroute, so it seems my OS is actually mirrored. I see now my whole OS has been hacked for almost 2 and 1/2 years and all my exe files have the exe missing. I need to know if it is possible to get my OS back. If it's got some age on it, you probably need to think about getting a new computer. If your laptop is relatively new, that would be my thought.

Basically, you'd save any files you wanted (photos, documents) to an external drive, then you'd completely wipe and re-format your hard drive, then re-install your OS from disc.

November 1, I'm not a computer expert by any means, but I think you should talk to one and ask about the hard drive wipe option. It's also important to have an antivirus installed on you computer, so that even if you download a bad file you'll have a means to quarantine it and get rid of it before it infects your computer.

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