It would seem that yesterday, my comp fell under the attack of a somewhat well-known malware parading around my computer as "Antivirus Soft". Soon as it popped up, my immediate reaction was unplug from the net, and call my dad for help since he's been working with computers nearly as long as I've been alive.

Anyway, he did a little research for me, told me of Malwarebytes, and helped me figure out how to run safe mode and still access the internet (woot!). Got myself the program, ran it once.... Knocked out five files... Rebooted, but foolishly -not- in safe mode. Virus still there. Went to work, came home, ran the thing three more times in safe mode, making sure each reboot was in safe more, and the last time I ran it, nothing found. Reboot as if normal... And yay, no virus!

And that was my adventure from saturday evening to monday evening. Hope some of you can learn from this, and that most of you haven't learned already, the hard way.