As of 10 last night, I acquired a virus, which did quite a number on my laptop. I tried removing manually, but everytime i'd active my norton, itd automatically boot me out of it. I tried going into regedit and manually resetting what it had damaged (i did a little research on symantic and told me to do this) again... no luck. I lost my xp software; a friend has some spare copies, so I attempted to reformat anyways til i waited to get a spare copy of windows. However, the virus had other plans and blocked me from doing so. I'm all out of ideas... any suggestions?


Also, since my computer is wifi capable but I lost the software for it, if i reformat using another xp cd would i lose my wifi?