09-04-2014, 12:49 AM
hal wrote:
If you don't have permission to work on the computer AND there is no IT dept, you've 100% screwed. Just accept that this is your fate and continue forward.
Exactly.
If this really is a work machine, they have a disc image to use to rebuild the drive.
In many places, you can just buy a drive with the image pre-installed.
I would honestly abandon the hardware and get my own machine than spend all of the time needed to try to eradicate just a few of the likely viruses you have. How much is your time worth? One day of wages will pay for a downpayment on a new machine.