Day: June 29, 2011

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I acquired the above message on my laptop while fixing a very ill PC for a friend.  I was almost impressed with the amount of work that had gone in to developing a virus that fools many into thinking that is is a legitimate programme, and which cleverly makes all the files on the C: drive have the “hidden” attribute- which really means that it looks like all your files are gone unless you know how to set folder options to view hidden files… anyway, that’s where my problems began.  I used Malwarebytes as the primary tool to cure the patient, as well as Avira Antivir Personal as my (free) antivirus.

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