[clue-talk] Windows uggh!

[bidwell]

On 01/01/2011 10:12 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> Can anyone suggest how I might fix this problem?
>
> My wife's XP computer has become infected with some sort of a virus
> that manifests itself as a name System Security. When the system
> boots, after the desktop appears it opens a box inviting registration
> of a product, starts a scan, purports to find a vrus, and hangs the
> computer.
>
> My windows virus killing skills are less than minimal.
>

Same thing happened to me a week ago when booting up the
windows partition for my wife.  I believe I went
into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
in the registry and found what I needed to delete.

Matt