So...I guess it started back a week ago when my cousin was visiting during the week. I was in school all day so I was never around the house to hang out with him. Anyway, a few days earlier, I set my Firefox options to re-open the website that was up when the browser was closed.
The day he left, I went up to my computer and turned it on. I opened Firefox and, to my shock and surprise, two tabs opened up, and in big, black, bold letters.....
HARDCORE JAPANESE GIRLS
and
BUKAKE
Right, so....
This weekend, I started getting a lot of pop-up windows...that's not normal, because Firefox always blocks them. Then my computer started running slowly....I immediately downloaded the latest version of AVG and ran a scan, as well as used HijackThis, Spybot, and Ad-Aware. Every program found something, and almost everything failed to clean. Then my computer crashed as I was running a scan....now it won't boot up.
I have another computer in my house, but for some reason, the two hard drives just don't like to be in the same computer at the same time (I've checked and rechecked the master/slave settings, bios, etc. No joy.) Does anyone happen to have any explanation why two physically sound hard drives will not work with one another in the same computer?
The symptoms are the same...they're both seen in the boot-up check, but it freezes and/or restarts when it tries to load windows.
Anyway....I'm forking pissed because my finals are next week, and I NEED NEED NEED my computer for my CAD final.
So the moral of the story is: Lock your computer when family visits. And get lots and lots of disinfecting wipes.