My question is -- is it REALLY a virus or a pop up thing that says you have a virus???? There IS a scam/spam/popup that comes on and says you have a virus. Then they try to SELL you something to cure it. You do NOT have a virus!!! Keep your virus protection updated and make sure, if you have it set to automatically run, that you have the machine ON during that time! My mother kept getting that message and taking her machine in for repairs. The repairman failed (?) to tell her that she didn't have a virus, that it was a scam. I can't tell you the $$ she spent. My GF was turning her machine off but telling the Norton's to run the virus protection updates at 3:00 in the morning. Well, with the machine off it can't get the updates. Turns out, when I went into her program, she hadn't had an update in over a year!!!!!