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Old Nov 21, 2013 | 7:27 pm
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PTravel
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Originally Posted by BOB W
I don't know if this will help, but I got this virus about a year ago. I had set up a second account on my PC that I accessed and reset the computer to a previous restore point, prior to the virus. It went away and has not been back, yet......

Geek Squad basically told me to wipe out the hard drive & start over again. I was not willing to do that.
A system restore will not restore data files, e.g. Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc.

As for Geek Squad, don't waste your time or money -- my wife knows more about computers and she doesn't know anything about computers.
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