I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm a complete noob, so please forgive me if I don't use the right techie language here.
I have a Sony Vaio desktop with windows 7 64 ( I think ) bit home premium on it.
I was experiencing some annoying popup thingies on the bottom of my screen whenever I was on the web, and Avast (free) wasn't detecting anything, and nothing got rid of it.
So like a complete moron ( ugh ) I ran something I found, called Hitman Pro. It found some adware/cookies and deleted them but it also detected 3 things it listed as "suspicious". I chose to quarantine them and it needed a reboot to complete. Before rebooting, I copied that log to my desktop, just in case.
When I restarted my PC it said unable to start windows, etc.
I tried last known configuration ( no good ), system restore ( can't do it, but then it's never functioned ), and of course, I don't have a recovery disk.
I can't get into safe mode either.
Windows repair just keeps endlessly looping, and asking to reboot.
I can get to the command prompt...
From there I was able to see the directory of my desktop and get to that log hitmanpro made.
The two files that it seems the 'hitman' apparently "took out" (bad pun) are: aswRvrt.sys and aswVmm.sys - which, upon googling, led me here.
Please please please help me......
I'm a digital artist, and while I regularly back up my work, I can't even begin to tell you what I'd lose if I had to wipe this baby....
I'd be grateful beyond words. And again, my apologies if I sound like a complete moron.
PS : I don't know if it helps but the dvd drive is working. I was able to see the contents of a dvd I put in, at the F prompt. So I can burn a disk on a borrowed laptop if need be.
( I'm currently at D:\Windows\System32\drivers> thinking maybe I just need to replace those two files? Please don't laugh if that's ridiculous...I'm desperate...