*flop*

I should probably feel worse. Strange, that.

I clocked in at work just before turning to the person at my door and asking what was up. His computer was infected with something. @whee. And so began my night of futility and frustration.
I'm sure I cursed more than I have in quite a while as I worked through my usual fixes only to find myself stymied at every turn. Whatever it was blocked access to just about anything I could use to get at it from Msconfig and the Task Manager to Malwarebyte's Anti-malware. And the thing failed to boot into safe mode repeatedly.
I connected the drive as a secondary in another machine, scanned it, cleaned it... and didn't find everything, not even enough to make it work better. I tried manually tracking down files, but the damned thing had made changes to the registry that meant it was even less functional after that.
I tried a Windows repair install that didn't benefit me in any way. I tried the recovery function I was sure that computer had, but apparently it didn't. I even tried backup CDs that might have applied, but turned out to be for a laptop. >.>
Almost eight and a half hours (and no dinner break) later, and the thing still isn't in properly-working shape by a long shot. It's been a long time since I spent my whole workday on one problem only to get my ass kicked by it. It's been draining and frustrating, and I'm left with no real idea where to go with the thing.

Yet I don't really feel that bad.

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