I think that Win32:Somoto-B [PUP] first reduced my CPU speed to a crawl and after me having attempted to eradicate it via avast startup scan (and during that rebooted), it probably destroyed bios or similar; as I never again saw the display light up again, nor does it appear to do anything at all, windows booting included (I also tried tapping enter, thinking it might prompt me whether to load in safe mode etc.).
The “file details” at
https://www.virustotal.com/et/file/4875f58dc4fc7b5d0fbcc7a9d945583f86260739506ab3d223755d98675b7989/analysis/
seem to agree that the type of virus affects CPU’s.
And as stated here:
http://blog.teesupport.com/win32adware-somoto-a-infection-how-to-remove-win32adware-somoto-a-virus-completely/
I also managed to cause more damage by trying to get rid of it.
The problem in my case is further complicated by the fact that the computer infected is a laptop…
I hope I won’t have to just throw my laptop away after this…
Any help would be appreciated.