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well my dads new laptop is very nice, but the other day(note it is using windows XP) while he was working norton
was disabled. A devil face at the bottom of the lower right hand corner of the start menu popped up.and then as he unpluged the dsl cable he heard fireworks. so he went to take the battery out so it could not do any more damage. but then it started to reboot in safe mode.
Please if any one know what this is tell me so i know what im dealing with.
try disabling unnecessary start up processes. start>run msconfig. I think the best thing to do would be to back up the important stuff(documents, saved games, games configs, etc.) then reformat. Or maybe get a good free antivirus like AVG free edition and a good firewall like secretmaker. maybe get the opera browser (PC world said it was the most secure browser that they rated)-
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