I have Mcafee to protect my computer and haven't had any problems in the 3 years I've had the service. Saturday my 8 year old daughter got on the computer and some how I got some Malware which stated it was Micosoft, telling me that my computer was infected and to run this computer scan. I hit no, instead of hitting the X to close the session. I panicked (half asleep with no coffee yet) and than I starting running McAfee. Out of frustration I unplugged my computer. Needless to say when I turned my computer on, the computer started up but I couldn't get out of the loop of Microsoft Windows Xp and Gateway and than a Computer configuration telling me attempts to get signed on failed. I than called a few friends who are computer geeks. They fixed my computer and told me that whatever it was, disabled my computer to the point where I couldn't get passed Windows xp. Sunday everything was fine and than my 8 year old daughter was frantic and came running into the kitchen stating that pop up is on the computer again. I closed the session, by not saying Yes or No and than I ran Mcafee. No problems. I asked my 8 year old what happened. She was on Stardoll.com when that little Trojan or whatever it was popped up. I entered the website and didn't have that problem. Than something told me to pull it up thru Google and than it happened to me. I told her not to use Google and I saved the website thru My Favorites. Has anyone else had any problems? Why would it happened pulling it up thru Google? Yes this is the 1st time this has happened. It's scary. My computer geek friends told me that Microsoft would never send any messages like that and that I would have been alert by Mcafee. Please help! I just hope nothing else happens. I had lost all of my files and I'm looking at getting an external harddrive. I'm not going thru this mess again.
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