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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: I_want_an_Omega on 04 June 2012, 19:54:28
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SWMBO's laptop running W7 has a virus.
On bootup and after entering the user password it displays a spoof screen from West Yorks Police inviting payment as the machine has apparently been used for an illegal purpose.
It seems she didn't renew the anti-virus s/w which came pre-loaded on it!
The machine will only respond to 2 options:
1) cntl/alt/delete - where it gives the options
2) power off
On 1) it gives the options you would expect and seems to function normally - but she only has one login id on the machine.
On 2) the screen clears and shows the desktop "normally" before shutting down.
Needless to say that the new AV s/w is sitting in a sealed box waiting to be installed.
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Comments welcome please
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have you tried running in safe mode?
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try this http://www.avg.com/gb-en/avg-rescue-cd it may kill the virus and also its free.
download to your pc and burn to cd/usb stick and in boot up select cd/usb boot up
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oh this is full of stuff http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
scroll to the bottom of the page to download it
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thanks guys - all sorted now :y
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Marvelous good to hear :y