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Originally Posted by ilvtofu
naw i typed the password correctly, interestingly enough my brother's account which has no password can be accessed without a problem, now the thing is now that I can get in as an admin, what do I do to remove any potential viruses?
Windows 7 sounds awesome
And I do have an optical drive 
However my main computer is an imac so would downloading windows 7 be more complicated as it might not be able to read many of the files |
If you can get in, then change your password to something you know, and log in. Hopefully you should already have a virus scanner. If not, download one. AVG, Avira, MS Security Essentials...anything is better than nothing. Scan for viruses first. Make sure it's clean. Then give it another run with Malwarebytes Anti Malware. If you want to be extra sure, download Spybot Search and Destroy and immunize and scan your machine. That should clean up 99% of the problems you have. If there's nothing critical on there, I still think you should blow away the OS and start from scratch. That's really the only way of knowing for sure that you don't have any type of spyware, malware or virus infection.
Like Underscore mentioned, if you download Windows 7, it's going to be an iso. Download, burn and throw it in the CD ROM drive. If you want to create a bootable USB, then you'll need to mount it with PowerIso or Daemon Tools and copy the install files to a USB drive.