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Old 02-24-2006, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Kaleen
Actually, I don't know if I did or not. I was on phone to the people at PC World and just followed their instructions. If it is a hardware fault, I am under warranty, would sending it in to get a new whatever-is-broken maybe fix it?? I don't *think* anything was plugged into the computer at the time, I am pretty sure I just plugged in the internet so that I could go online and download McAfee/ZoneAlarm.

Turn off System Restore, if a virus or spyware, restore points are protected and are not scanned, get these free spyware programes

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
update immediatley, make sure your antivirus is up to date.
Then log on in Safe Mode and run all your scans again

Hope this helps
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