>> 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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