I've yet to jump on the Windows 8 wagon, but I had an employee present a HP Pavilion g7 laptop running Windows 8 Pro 64bit. She literally downplayed the severity of it, just mentioned some popups when she goes online. Well I fired the d@mn thing up and immediately recognized the symptoms of blaster worm. You can't open taskmgr, IE, exe's or anything outside of document directories or it kills it. Of course, I tried to log in via Safe Mode Networking, but being Windows 8 (or quite possibly the virus) the option never presented it self (even by following HP's steps).
So I now have a laptop that with no Admin account enabled, no access to Safe Mode, can't utilize IE, no other browsers installed, literally no way of supporting this computer utilizing the current OS. Has anybody had this issue, if so how to did you resolve it?