I will keep my hooves crossed for you.

Hope your dad can fix it, and if he does, that he doesn't look at your artwork, and if he does, that he's okay with it. o_O

Hahaha, you read my mind ;p

Awkward.

No rush take your time, you're needs come first

oh my god, i hope the best for You!!!

ahhhh yes, easy fix...kinda, I had this problem 2 months ago brush, exact same thing. I could still save my stuff to like a 3 gig stick, and simply restored my computer, pfft, after that incident I out avg antivirus on it, list all website virus ratings. apaet from restoring I dont know what else could be done, of course youll have to boot it in safe mode to save your stuff.

you could boot up with a live Linux DVD and copy the data off of it to an external drive. Then you could delete the art. Of course you could also run an antivirus from linux and clean it up.

oh no. a virus attack is shit. i had that problem a couple of months ago >_<. hope your dad can fix it.

That dropbox thing sounds great. I also have a smaller crappy laptop that I am using now and store a lot of stuff on.
I didn't get a BEX error, the virus comes with a bunch of annoying pop-ups pretending to be anti-virus software >.>

I had something similar right in the middle of writing a paper(that's what I get for allowing myself to be distracted by the internet). Was up all night fixing it, safe mode and manually going through the registry. Not fun. If your dad can't do that then try a system restore(if you're using windows) it doesn't delete the art files but should stop the maleware. Fail that, wipe the drive and reinstall.

I've been noticing an increase in this type of attack lately, it sounds like what you're experiencing is part of this viral campaign (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/129843/20110402/lizamoon-websense-apple-itunes-security-trojan-malware-scareware-script-sql-injection-four-million-w.htm) and the damn thing is everywhere.
Most of my personal experiences with it have been through Google Images, I managed to get a few of the infected hosts that kept bugging me shut down by contacting the hosting companies of said sites but 99% of people don't know how to do that. Best preventative thing to do is update your browser, Java Runtime and Adobe Flash Player to their latest versions and exit the browser if the pops up start occurring whilst surfing, unfortunately it sounds like it's already too late for you. Let's hope the malware's purpose isn't also identify theft, trying to find credit card numbers of user account details for your banking, PayPal etc.

That really sucks, I hope you can save everything.

You should really do your research on anti-virus if you have a lot of stuff saved on your computer...

well I did have a an anti-virus on my computer that failed to protect me, I also back-up my files, I just got a little lazy and haven't done it since christmas. What do you mean by doing my research?

There are a ton of non-subscription antiviral programs out there that are completely free and do the same if not better than Norton, McAfee, Panda, AVG, etc.

I do a lot of... downloading... and I learned through necessity over the years, what works and what simply doesn't.

If you don't consider yourself tech-savvy, I would suggest a combo of No Script, Ad Blocker Plus (fanboy's list), Avast, and Malwarebytes. No Script will automatically prevent java scripting, Adblock will prevent outsourcing, Avast scans downloads automatically, and Malwarebytes has an auto-scan function as well. You never want to use just one type of anti-virus, there's a lot of malware out there that's written specifically to bypass the big boys such as Norton.

If you have some tech savvy however; The safest way to do anything online is running a virtual machine monitor or hypervisor. It takes a bit more processing power but it's literally impossible to infect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine

Wow, thanks for the info. I am not the most tech savvy person so I think I will just get those anti-virus programs you described. I have been using Avira, which I thought was pretty good until this happened. I do a lot of downloading as well ;p

I am really patient, plus I had to do a full system restore from a virus I got off of facebook. it kicked me off the internet and would not let me on anything at all, about like what yours is doing.

hoping the best for you....