Wife's Tosh laptop has Antivirus-Soft rogue spyware infection. Need to boot in safe mode to deal with it - but spyware has highjacked msconfig. Which function key boots into safe mode?

Wife's Tosh laptop has Antivirus-Soft rogue spyware infection. Need to boot in safe mode to deal with it - but spyware has highjacked msconfig. Which function key boots into safe mode?

f8 during bootup, usually to get to safe mode ,but don't be surprised when it acts just like regular mode ,if there is no admin acct to get into

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