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Wife was at work so I was streaming the Mayweather fight from her laptop while using my laptop.

In the middle of the broadcast, I lost connection. I breifly remember something in the bottom right corner of the screen saying lock something or something lock. anyways. I was like Ill be sure to run the virus scanner once I am done.

I found a new stream and finished the fight. Ran Malwarebytes quick scan. nothing good. ran full scan. Went to check results and computer was frozen. restrated it, froze again.

Now it gets "hung up" ont he start up screen, the little loading circle stops rotating (right before you put in your windows password)

I can get into safe mode with out a problem. Running McAfee full scan now. nothing yet.I tried start up repair. says no problems, ran it several times. I tried system recovery. there was some kind of error and of course when it goes to restart. same hang up before the login screen.

Wife came home from work and was pretty pissed off. I better have this fixed before she wakes up. HELP? :smoking:
 

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Download malwarebytes (free) and run full scan - they find a lot of things that macafee and others miss
 

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thanks for the replies guys....

It wasn't a virus I don't think..... I've been able to run antivirus' in safe mode without a problem. actually am a master at fixing those "rogue" anti viruses rather quickly now

i called lenovo, and watched what he did... and then he told me for $189 for a 1 year warranty on 3 computers, and he can fix it. told him no thanks, must not be a big deal if he can fix it by just letting him have access to my computer over the net.

i deleted my cookies. went to msconfig, searched every file understart up and see if it was necessary in starting the computer, then restarted. computer then went into start up fix mode and actually worked this time...

thrilled!!

only took about 3 hours. wife was pissed this morning.
 

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next time just do a system restore to the day before.. or if ur worried go 1 week back.

takes bout 5 mins , ur computer reboots and it loads as if its May 1st 2012 but has the 7th date :D

congrats on fixing it though

-murph
 

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