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Virus- Shuts down PC
Name: Krioni Date: February 25, 2004 at 16:44:21 Pacific OS: W98 CPU/Ram: 512mb, 1.2ghz
Comment:
Hey, I recently got the Coolweb virus but I finally got rid of that, now I have one that shuts down my PC after like 20 minutes or so. I don't have online connection anymore on that PC, so I probably got the virus from the same place as the smartsearch one, from a site on xanga.com So the PC shuts down and that makes it annoying when doing work and such. Sometimes it won't even start up. I thought maybe it was over heating so I unplug it and let it sit for a while and replug then it will start. But it occured that it may be a virus. Any ideas?
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