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by kevin7frg 1 view

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When I open XP, the windows installer wants to install a language package. Then a bunch of windows pop up that are all in Chinese or some Asian language. The PC will boot normally but will crash every time when trying to get into safe mode. Has anyone seen this one?? It's a pain in my rear!!

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by srmcevoy

It has come through at work a number of times this year. Mostly through email. One round was set up to look like UPS info. Malwarebytes got rid of it every time so far, with varying degrees of infection depending on how many times the user clicks it.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

http://bookreviewsandmore.ca/2008/11/computer-tools-tips-and-tricks.html

Run the update twice, first time sometimes updates the program, then the DB.

by srmcevoy

If it is really infected, run msconfig and disable all services except Microsoft. Reboot, Run Malwarebytes clean machine reboot. run once again.

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