Well that was scary

Last night (or this morning I guess) I was getting attacked with messages about a virus. This stopped me from getting into any programs, including internet browsers (which still wouldn't work even in safe mode with networking for whatever reason). I'm no computer expert despite the amount of time I spend on them. So anyway, I do some research on the virus, and it turns out it's not even a real virus but just a scam to get me to buy a full anti-virus software. I looked around to see the safest way to repair it, and hopefully not lose my data. After doing plenty of research via my iPod's web browser, I hesitantly clicked on System Restore, and went back to August 1st just to be safe. 

 

After about 5-10 minutes I come back to check my computer, and my desktop background looks like normal, without virus warnings popping up by the second. I click on Google Chrome and it takes a while to load, but eventually I have access to the internet from my PC. I opened other programs to be sure and everything is working. After a while it got up to normal speed, but I'm going to clean up some things from the hard drive that I don't need since I noticed I'm taking up almost 100 GB of 140.

 

Hopefully everything continues to run smoothly.