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Originally Posted by ctc17
The one I got was called XP Security 2012. It was malware ant it was difficult to get rid of.
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I got one like that two years ago, was called" XP Security 2010" at the time. AVG let it on my computer. I had clicked on a picture someone had posted from Flickr, which seemed to launch the virus. It had placed two exe files in the root directory and a red icon in the task bar, accompanied by a sound every 90 seconds reminding me to click on the red icon. I tried AVG online live support and all seemed well after their technician worked on it for 2 hours. Then when all was supposedly done and we disconnected I tried to run a program and it wouldn't launch, so I tried to restart the computer, and it wouldn't boot, just a blinking "-" . Finally resorted to a week old backup I had done using Acronis, loaded it to a new HDD, and all was OK again.