I've spent a nice entire Sunday (and day off) removing virus' of the step boys laptop! Being 18 I'm sure I don't need to tell you the type of sites he was viewing to get the virus!
After trying several free anti virus and anti malware programs I was still being presented with the lovely "PC Confidential" virus / scam. The idea is you pay PC Confidential a ransom to get your PC back working, avast was also stating we had a MBR (boot sector) virus which I just couldn't shift.
I conceded defeat after several hours and rang Clive the DCi Net IT guru, I felt a bit bad ringing him on a Sunday , but I think he enjoyed the chat and the challenge of the problem.
In the end we decided to transfer the all important A level files (that hadn't been backed up!) to an SD card and reformat the hard drive.

I'm pleased to say after moving the files to the SD card and spending another few hours reinstalling windows 7 we finally have the PC up and working with the backed up files in place.
I've also now set up Mozy backup on his PC so should this happen again the files are backed up elsewhere.

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