I was working on my laptop one evening then it froze, couldnt seem to get anything to "unfreeze" then i had to shut it down using the power button (i 've done that at different times) but now after all of that my system refused to boot for about 24hrs when it did eventually i couldnt locate my files it looked like the system was formatted some softwares where still there and the disk space showed my files where stashed somewhere but yet i cant find them. Please what can i do or are they lost forever?

Your system has been infected by virus attack without anti-virus software installed on your system to protect against 1 millions viruses out there and without updating the latest adding patch of anti-virus download in order to protect your system.

Google finding the name of virus how to remove it.

google for and get Recover My Files. warning: its commercialware, not free.

*but not if thepiratebay has anything to say*

get my meaning?

From all you have said it has been infected and i don't think you can handle the repair yourself get it to a tech expert please .

well i would advise you do system restore to your computer system

okay

it works for me