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Old 01-26-2010, 06:17 PM
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Norton sucks, I had this happen twice, probably due to you visiting mindpoop (thats where I got mine)
First time, I couldn't do anything and resorted to going through Norton themselves and they did the whole take over your computer for 100 bucks and repair it. He cleaned it all up but the idiot left the file that initiated the virus on my desktop and it quickly took over again after a few days.
I ended up just opening in safe mode and just transfer everything you need or care about off onto an external drive and reformatted. I then downloaded AVG and use them now. once you finished reformatting, connect the stuff you transferred to the external drive and scan it all w/ your new anti virus stuff before putting it back on.
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