I was quite leery about going back online, however. I tried rebooting into safe mode, but that did not help.Īt some point, I attempted a system restore, which turned out to successfully restore access to my virus protection. I disconnected my LAN, and tried to figure out what to do. Obviously, something happened because the next time I booted up to my computer, malwarebytes wouldn't start, Avast free was disabled and 'locked' and my firewall (windows) was turned off. (I tried to create an bootable Ubuntu trial disk at a friend's pc, in order to use the web that way, but unfortunately, my dvd player couldn't fully read the dvd-rom.) Meanwhile, I logged on in this unprotected state, to download a strong firewall like zonealarm. I am still using windows XP pro, unfortunately.
