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I keep pretty much to myself while on the computer, DU, couple of other sites, e-mail. Now and then a letter.
Pretty simple. I lead a simple life.
Why didn't you guys warn me. Yipes, while doing a genealogy search via "the Google", up pops a screen: "Threat Detected". Obviously I closed out of everything and started AVG.
What happened for me was an eye-opener. Just got this gizmo back from the repair guru and can relay this to those of you who are an inexperienced as I am.
First of all, this whole affair running AVG took 2 1/2 hours.
Flashing blue screen, then-and constant flashing "this page cannot be displayed(orange window indicator tells me it has opened 56 windows but the number goes up and down. Big strip right up the middle of the screen saying repeatedly "Internet Explorer", rolling bottom to top like an old movie. Then I hear music and voices coming from the tower, not constant but intermittent. At the later part of the AVG run, up pops the blue screen again. How am I ever going to complete this? Blue screen finally went away and I could see the Box with scan results.
7 Trojan Horses and all their men in my computer. Hit heal, quarantine or whatever the word was and off 6 of them go to the virus vault. Left me with the message that one could be removed. Called computer Guru and he picked it up to do his magic.
You all know what was next, 3 days no computer. Now it is back and I hope all is well.
This was not fun. The computer Guru said to leave just AVG and nothing else on the computer. He had to clean up a lot of stuff: virus's and spyware and do registry things. I have know idea and it is all beyond me except to say that I hope this never happens again.
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