Originally Posted by Artsyfartsy
Its a scam to make you pay money to someone. It doesn't damage anything, but it will keep popping up and making you miserable, and infect other computers with itself.
It took Hubby five hours to find out that much. :(
A lot of people think its from Microsoft, because it will mimic the information, but its not. Hubby's asleep right now, but I can post links tomorrow for anyone who's being harassed by this thing.
It's not from Microsoft because it states that the Microsoft files are the virus and if you go in to delete the "infected" files you find out that they are indeed critical files needed to make your computer work. It also hid the desktop on her computer so we couldn't access anything or do anything. It got so bad we just wiped everything off her computer and reinstalled the operating system. My cousin had that same one and she got a program online that utilized alot of programs and steps to get rid of it and it took her 8 hours to fix it! I wonder if it's the same program your husband found?
Was it this link?
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407