>> Well, if your PC reboots every 20 seconds, what else can you realistically
>> do? There isn't sufficient time to install any tools or run any kind of
>> diagnostics.
>
> ??? If you were able to find and download the patch from your mum's PC then
> you could also find instructions on the internet about 1) how to stop the
> rebooting before it happened and 2) to get rid of the worm without
> reinstalling.
Well by the time I got that far I'd already reinstalled twice.
Reinstalling is probably simpler than following a tricky sequence of
registry edits and hoping that you don't accidentally break your PC and
that all traces of the virus are actually gone...
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