My bi-monthly cry for HELP! ;_;

[bee_york]

I had a virus yesterday but Spybot took care of it, yay. EXCEPT...Winamp no longer works! o_O I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling 3 times! The installation process appears to go just fine, but then Winamp will open and disappear just as quickly and it gives me the same error message:

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

What does that mean? Does anyone know? What should I do?

I have Mediaplayer but I can't exactly use it (long story). I just want Winamp back. Help?!

ETA: SHIT. It looks like the damage from the virus is massive: MSN won't work either! What on Earth does one do in circumstances like these?

Comments

[its-ender.livejournal.com]

ouch...did you ever do a back up?
You could try to recover the system to the back up state...you will lose whatever was causing the problem likely (unless you backed it up).

I use Firefox as my web browser with an Adblock add-on and a Script-block too...most viruses come invisible on ads and scripts, so I recommend that

if you use MS security essentials as your virus protection, that's free
and with the above 2 add ons, I doubt you'd get anything...

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

I have pretty much everything on this computer backed-up somewhere, except for the music. :/ I don't know *how* to back things up, considering this laptop doesn't have a CD-burner. Is that even possible? ;_;

[its-ender.livejournal.com]

you can use even a big enough USB stick to back up, you can get an 8 or 16gb stick for like 20 bucks nowadays so depending on how big the file is, you can back up and store it in case

there should be an application on the comp to do a back up and it usually will calculate the space needed and ask you where to save the back up, be it to a usb or dvd/cd

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Oh duh USB keys! How could I forget?! :O

You know, I really wonder about myself these days. I don't know if I've become stupider with age or what. :/ I actually already have some stuff backed up on USB.

Like yesterday on Facebook, when I was lamenting the loss of Winamp and complaining how useless Mediaplayer is, and one of my friends was like, "Oh, you should get iTunes" and like a good half hour later I was like, ".....oh wait I totally have iTunes!"
Like seriously. Who forgets what programs they have on their own computer? -.-

Anyway, thanks! ;)

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

OMFG. Did I like write 'like' enough times up there? It's like, I totally like type how I talk. I like totally annoy myself. ;P

[its-ender.livejournal.com]

lol, I'm older than you so trust that it only gets worse :/

Anytime !