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Any PC experts out there?

Nellie

New Member
I am getting a worrying message when I boot my laptop, although it doesn't happen every time I start-up.

I get a message in very large letters which fills the screen which says "No Files Found". If I click my mouse, it then goes on to boot windows with no problems at all. All my files are there and there is no performance issues.

I assumed it was a virus, but I have done a virus scan, and nothing came up, and I can't find anything online about it either.

Does anyone know what this is and how to solve it?

Thanks!
 
I am running McAfee, and it is supposed to check for malware.... although it doesn't find anything. :confused:
 
Any message which "fills the screen" (windows won't do that) indicates something along the lines of malware/spyware/virus as sparkchaser indicated. Try Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware and Spybot Search and destroy. Both outstanding. May need to run these in safe mode. Plenty of info on the net how to do that, but I will help you if i can get back to the computer soon enough!
 
Any message which "fills the screen" (windows won't do that) indicates something along the lines of malware/spyware/virus as sparkchaser indicated. Try Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware and Spybot Search and destroy. Both outstanding. May need to run these in safe mode. Plenty of info on the net how to do that, but I will help you if i can get back to the computer soon enough!


Thanks, thats really helpful I'll give that a try.

Everything is backed-up, and my virus protection is also updated regularly, so not sure what happened, but I guess you can't be 100% protected.

I'll let you know how I get on. :flowers:
 
Sorry for the delay in replying, my poor laptop finally gave up the digital ghost... So now I have a brand new one and I am just setting it up! Thanks for the help guys!
 
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