Talk about wierd...

[intz2nu]

I can say for sure that the person who you (thought) to be knowledgeable of computers who told you that the computer was ruined because of the virus clearly doesn't know much about computers or the virus that caused the computer to have problems. I have had that vary same exact virus many times and it is easily able to be removed when you boot into safe mode as it's a virus that hides and runs in the background and is automatically installed and executed from a hidden folder on your computer. I hope that the computer wasn't tossed away because of a person with little knowledge saying it was ruined because he/she could not fix it.