I restored someone else's backup to my phone

I ve installed ios7 but forgot to backup my Iphone before installing ios7. I didnt know that until i have restored to someone else's backup, I bought this computer from someone, and apparently this guy had his phone backed up on my computer.
When i installed ios7 some of my stuff was missing, and I wanted to restore back up, and did the latest back up available, and that back up is not
mine. When I realized it, now I want to back up my own backup from another computer, but itunes wants me to deactivate findmyiphone first.
But i cant, because the restoring backup activated his icloud account, and I dont have his password.
So even if I want to restore the phone completely its asking for his **** icloud account.
Please someone help me(((((((((((((((((((((((

Place the phone in DFU mode, then plug it into iTunes and the phone should wipe.
To place the phone in DFU mode hold the power and home buttons simultaneously until the phone turns off and then let go of the power button but keep holding the home button for a few seconds. The screen should stay black. Plug the phone into your computer with iTunes running. After that iTunes will recognize the phone in DFU mode and restore it to factory settings.
This should solve your problem.
Note: This works because the password for the iCloud account has not been entered onto the iPhone after the restore. All the iCloud options should be grayed out and inaccessible. If they are accessible, then the iCloud account has been put on the phone with the password and DFU restore will not remove iCloud account. At least to my knowledge it won't.

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