[Novalug] Amusing Windows Issue

[Jay Hart]

Sounds like you are getting infected by an airborne virus.

A little bug spray on the HDD should fix that.

Jay

> A friend just brought me her PC that was all jacked up and wouldn't run
> her applications. Seems the virus program she was running says
> everything is infected and she needs to buy the full version to clean
> the infection. I plug in a keyboard and monitor, boot, and start
> looking. A few minutes later I get a dire warning that the machine is
> being attacked by some ip address, do I want to block that?
>
> Amusingly, I never plugged in the network.
>
> Now off to remove this spyware fake virus protection.
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