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ContraVirus cleanup

Posted: Saturday, June 9th, 2007 @ 8:25 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

Had a call from a client this week, describing a “Microsoft logo down by the clock with a virus alert.” It wasn’t, but that was the message. This is on a recent vintage Dell box, XP Home, fully-patched, with antivirus and antispyware packages from one of the major companies. A yellow warning flag announced that [...]