OT Beware of ThinkPoint
 

It is a Trojan virus complete with Microsoft Logo. It has been around for a short period of time but caused a lot of problems. It managed to sneak around the McAfee firewall and infect the computer at work. We had to bounce the McAfee and use a new version of Norton to finally get rid of it. There are other fixes. Google remove ThinkPoint.

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Just had the same problem on a computer at work.
they do have a Microsoft logo on it ,so it looks legit at first glance.
It got around Norton on this PC, but it looks like the virus definitions had'nt been updated in about a month.
The more you try to get around it's defenses to attempt a removal ,the more embedded it becomes!
I had to format the hard drive on this one and reinstall all the software.
It appears it was attached to an e-mail from our site from a customer inquiring about a used car,and got around multiple firewalls!
Tom

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got it on my almost new laptop last month, there are ways to remove it, but its not for the novice. Glad my iMac doesn't have those issues

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If you dont stop it early , it evedently disrupts more processes the more times you restart your PC.
this one killed IE access, and the computer would not enter Safe Mode .
I have removed previous versions of this malware,but now this version with the Microsoft logo seems to be more malicious. .

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Is this Win XP or 7?

Heard of another one that is bad.
Don't open e-mail if "HERE YOU HAVE IT" is in the subject line.

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I had the same problem over the weekend and it would not let me get online so I reset my computer to an earlier date and got rid of it.