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[jaderedux]

After years and years of almost obessive care of computer....always have firewalls, Full suite virus protection ...I got a virus on my computer. Bad ugly one. Computer just keeps restarting itself. know this is NOT good news. What I want to do is get it fixed.

Does anyone know of reliable person/shop in Seoul. I need a place that can communicate in english. I am pretty good with Korean but not geek talk.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Jade the sad

[BigBlackEquus]

What is your virus program?

If you can, go to http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html and download the free Home version of their program. The first time you run it, after restarting, the program will ask you if you want to do a "bootscan" which checks for viruses in the OS before Windows loads, and before any virus like that can load and shut your computer down. Do it. But the trick is that you have to install the program before it shuts down your computer. There is a basic scan diskette you can download, too, I think.

Try this before paying someone to fix it.

[Demophobe]

You are sure it's a virus? Power problems and heat may also cause such behavior.

[Demonicat]

question, is this a laptop?

[dbee]

Could be a bios virus. That's a superior type of virus in the virus world. You should consider you're self lucky really. I wish I had a bios virus. Oh, well...

If you bring it into a shop - the guy is just going to throw loads of big words at you. Most of which he doesn't understand. Then he's going to format your harddrive, then he's going to charge you $70-120

This is computer repairman standard practice. It's the same no matter which country you're in.

If I were you, I'd sue McAfee, install linux and take 5

[SuperHero]

Could be the sasser worm/virus. Do a seach of the norton site to find the fix for that.