Recent content by AlienFreak

Just to update you all. I tried running the antivirus scan but it took all night and just ended up producing a whole screenful of error messages, so I don't know if it actually did much. At that point, I gave up as I was 99% certain it was a virus, and I worked around it by doing a system...

Thanks so much for your suggestions. I haven't got the problem completely sorted yet, but I was finally able to boot into safe mode and VERY quickly get my antivirus open. It's running in that black window (with the c:> prompt), which I'm assuming must've been what prevented my laptop from...

HELP! My laptop shuts down after loading Win7 before AntiVirus can load. It happens in safe mode as well. It's a complete shutdown - no restart. The shutdown happens so quickly that it doesn't give you enough time to run an antivirus scan. The laptop had been working fine until this time. No...