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Pop Up at Boot
Name: p5mp3guy Date: May 6, 2009 at 10:29:07 Pacific OS: XP Subcategory: Viruses
Comment:
A friend of mine has a Pop Up when she boots her XP and 'freezes' the booting process. Screen says pay $89 to MS Security??? She has to hard boot and can't get past this window.
You should be able to boot into safe mode and stop the nasty from running with MSCONFIG, then reboot normally & see about removing it completely.
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Response Number 2
Name: p5mp3guy Date: May 7, 2009 at 10:58:11 Pacific
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Great idea. As I was doing this long distance, I walked her through the steps and got rid of that 'nasty', but she has other probs - namely virus stuff. I have a friend in her area and will have him work with her. Thanks for the help.
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Response Number 3
Name: deeskannur Date: May 10, 2009 at 00:24:43 Pacific
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Wot problem is that with the virus? wot does it do ?? can u explain more about it ?
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