virus attack

Was surfing the internet and suddenly a window pops out and warns that the HDD is critical and needed to be scanned for repair. Then everything starts to hang as more error messages started popping out like mushrooms!

First reaction was, "wtf..." Then quickly logs off. Hahaa, like any good that'll do! But did notice that there was a new program installed, which was strange because I didn't install any new programs on that day. So restarted the PC and true enough, the messages appeared again. It was like 10 or more error windows that peppered the taskbar. And horrors of horrors, all installed programs did not show up on start button and everything on desktop was cleaned out! And internet connection was disabled.

First thing first, enable the internet connection. Ok. Can be done. Then googled for "system repair virus". Thank goodness, it's a known virus.

Now most files are back and it looks usable again.

Trojans are everywhere. Beware.