Fighting the damn thing for three days. This was on my notebook. It kept loading porno thumbnail pics on my desktop. I kept getting a pop-up asking me to but anti virus software. I would close this and get a message that I had no anti virus software, even though I did.
I ran a diagnostic and found the viruses. Three of em. I got the string and tried to find them on my hard drive. Not there. Sum bitch.
Ended up having to take it to "The Geek Guys." They charged me 199.00 to clean it up. I do get a 70.00 discount because it's under a year old. Some warranty something or another.
What made it bad was that my laptop(2 years old) wouldn't stay running for fifteen minutes. The fan would start and then it would overheat, shutting off. This had been going on for a few months. Finally it wouldn't stay on at all. I thought it might be a software/driver conflict so I did a clean reinstall. I did transfer my files to disk beforehand. After all of this, no change.
I took em both in at the same time. The geek took the laptop in the back and blew it out. He sail there was enough dust in it to fill a vacuum bag. No charge. It works fine now.
Now I get to spend several days reloading my bookmarks.
Why did they ever replace an abacus and carrier pigeons?