HEADS UP, there is a new virus put there that is VERY sneaky called "Comet" and it comes to you as a "pop-up" window. I'm not certain what page I was looking at but it was something to do with searching for computer equipment info, (there is the catch). A window popped up appearing as a system error message: "Notice a plug-in required needs updating, click ok to proceed"- or something like that. Sounds legitimate. So anyway after clicking okay "something" downloads and then a cute little application-looking window appears introducing itself as the "ultimate in computer web browsing" or some such thing. It makes absolutely no since. Realizing that this was something I didn't want and that I had been taken for what I thought was advertising, I deleted it... or did I??? The next time I started the system up- it wouldn't. The entire win.ini file was gone. No way to fix it because Windows won't start. A "start-up" disk doesn't help. Then I discover that the BIOS has been screwed with. This is one nasty bug!! Long of the short of it, the easiest cure was to go out and buy a new hard drive. I could have reloaded Windows using a universal boot disk but that required reformatting of the hard drive which means I would have lost EVERYTHING. I wanted more space anyway but not under these circumstances. At this point with two hard drives connected I can transfer everything valuable to the new drive safely. I already had two drives on my system so now I got three- now that is a lot of storage space! Moral of the story and a warning- if you see this pop-up, (or anything similar), RUN LIKE THE WIND!!! Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV
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