Virus won't let me log in to WinXP

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I'm assuming a rather serious virus has infected my computer

Days ago, in searching for song lyrics, Hotbar (and who knows what else) managed to get into my system. I tried to uninstall it myself but failed miserably. Next step was downloading Ad-Aware (by Lavasoft) to remove Hotbar (and everything else that I didn't know about). At that time I also installed some XP updates

Afterwards my system was running fine but Windows Media Player wasn't working for some reason so I (fatefully) decided to restart my computer. Big mistake. My system loads into the Log-in screen, and so I click on my profile (or any profile for that matter) and it says, "logging in." My desktop (my favorite painting by Shiele) flashes for a second and then the blue screen comes back and says "logging off." This is maddening

The system does the same in safe mode as well

Is there anyway my files can be saved, my system restored

I wish I could go to Microsoft about this but I'm a lowly AmeriCore*VISTA with absolutely no money for this

Thanks so much
Jessica
 
There is a very helpful virus removal newsgroup you may wish to post to:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I'm assuming a rather serious virus has infected my computer.
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| Days ago, in searching for song lyrics, Hotbar (and who knows what else) managed to get into my system. I
tried to uninstall it myself but failed miserably. Next step was downloading Ad-Aware (by Lavasoft) to remove
Hotbar (and everything else that I didn't know about). At that time I also installed some XP updates.
|
| Afterwards my system was running fine but Windows Media Player wasn't working for some reason so I
(fatefully) decided to restart my computer. Big mistake. My system loads into the Log-in screen, and so I
click on my profile (or any profile for that matter) and it says, "logging in." My desktop (my favorite
painting by Shiele) flashes for a second and then the blue screen comes back and says "logging off." This is
maddening.
|
| The system does the same in safe mode as well.
|
| Is there anyway my files can be saved, my system restored?
|
| I wish I could go to Microsoft about this but I'm a lowly AmeriCore*VISTA with absolutely no money for this.
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| Thanks so much,
| Jessica
 
hopefully you've got an anti-virus already installed.. if you do.. use the recovery disk(s) or the CD-rom to try and boot it and remove the garbage virus (i hate viruses
you should have already had Ad-aware AND Spybot installed.. everyone HAS to have them with the growing increase of spyware... get them both for free from www.download.com.. both great reputable products..
hope this helps a lil.. thx for readin
-Jonathan
 
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