If your beer is infected severely at this stage then you dumped the wort into a large active colony of nasties. If you took some basic precautions as suggested below, you won't have a big infection at this point. Cleaning and sanitizing before dumping the wort into the carboy, preventing exposure to open air, not licking the stir spoon, etc, then you can appreciate the fermentation process with wonder and fascination. Before too long you will be wiping thick, creamy beer foam from your lips.