Shadow

Friday night. Shadow went loco. I thought it was because of the stuff I downloaded that time. Windows wouldn’t start up in normal mode, only in safe mode. I tried troubleshooting, but I wasn’t able to solve the problem. I went to bed with a frown. Toink.
Saturday morning. I told my mom about what happened, and she scolded me a little. But it was okay. I asked her to call her friend to help us with the problem. I felt better that day (I wasn’t home the whole afternoon) since I knew Shadow would be fixed soon.
Saturday night. I tried some more troubleshooting after finding out that the problem wasn’t entirely my fault after all. It was kind of a Vista hitch. I did a startup repair, but it didn’t work ‘coz it just said there were no problems found. Weird.

Sunday morning. My mom’s friend came to fix Shadow. I thought some reformatting would be done. But he just did a startup repair using my recovery CD. And voila, Windows would boot in normal mode already! I did try the startup repair last Saturday night, but I didn’t use the CD since I thought it was already preinstalled or something. So… I could’ve fixed Shadow myself had I tried using the CD? Hahaha. I’m just happy Shadow’s back to normal already.
Sunday night. I couldn’t open any site with Firefox and Internet Explorer! Only in Chrome. I did a computer scan, and some malicious files were quarantined (maybe from the stuff I downloaded last Friday night). It fixed the problem. I also noticed that some results from my Google search would redirect me to a malware site (or something), but I didn’t click anything from that site. It was just weird that I was redirected. I didn’t care yet.
Monday morning. The redirection happened again. I searched the net about this, and I found out that Shadow’s been infected with the Google Redirect Virus (I think).
Monday night. I searched the net again for ways to eliminate this troubling virus. There were a lot of posts about it, but I was skeptical. I tried one solution, come what may. I just wanted Shadow to be back to a normal and clean state. Hehehe. I tried ComboFix, and poof! Shadow’s really back to normal now! Hahaha. I’m not really sure how ComboFix works, and if it’s safe or not. I’ve read about it, that it’s an excellent but very powerful tool so it shouldn’t be used without supervision from experts. It could even disable the computer and make it unbootable if used incorrectly. Maybe I just got lucky? Hahaha.

Those were the misadventures of Shadow… and the owner. Hahaha. I just hope Shadow wouldn’t have any more problems. I’m not a computer expert, you know! And it’s not every time that I get lucky with solutions on the net. Hehehe.