those pop ups are usually scare tactics to get you to click on something and install their spyware.
did you look at it in his machine ? If drive is wiped restore disks are available from HP for usually less the $50 fp At 09:14 AM 8/11/2008, Joe User Poked the stick with: >Hello, > > Have a guy that brought in his Wal-Mart sold HP/Crapaq laptop. >He tells me he was surfing pr0n and got a message that his system was >infected and he just shut down his system and called me. I asked him >if this was possibly a pop up ad and he doesn't think it was. However, >he doesn't know if the AV was working or even current. The system is >around 6 - 7 months old. It has Vista Home Premium OEM on the COA. > I took the drive out and tried to access it and as soon as >Windows explorer tries to access it asks me to format it. I am using >Win2K Pro to do this but last I knew Vista had WinFS left out so I >assume it uses NTFS or at least FAT32. So I should be able to read it. >I can only assume the drive got wiped out. The problem now is he >didn't get any discs with it and since the drive is wiped out the >recovery partition is also gone. I would try to recover the file >system but I am thinking maybe it would be better to start from >scratch. I had never seen this kind of damage from a infection though >but he denies any other issues with the unit, no grinding noises to >make me suspect HDD issues. > Since I only have a copy of Vista Business upgrade (ala MAPS) I >guess all I can do is ask for a recovery disc from HP/Crapaq? > >-- >Regards, > joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- To HELL with the Prime Directive.... FIRE!!! - Kirk
