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> That stops the machine rebooting, but it still doesn't remove the virus.

The point is that it gave you plenty of time to install whatever blaster 
removal tool you had downloaded from the AV makers.

>Oh dear, I must be a really stupid n00b for not knowing something so 
>"obvious". Get off my case!

The noobishness is not about not knowing something. It's about not imagining 
that there are other people out there with the same problem and possibly 
solutions that work, all of this a Google search away. To be fair, it took 
me a while to get this, as I'm old enough to be from a generation where it 
was much more difficult to learn things on the fly...

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