Advice needed on BSOD Scam!
Suddenly on our other computer there was a bright blue screen accompanied by a loud beeping that sounded like a timer. A message said "BSOD: Register Server Failed with an error code....." and also s...
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vjstangelo wrote:X2
Did you create a system image and a recovery disk? If yes, boot from the recovery disk, and you should get an option to restore the operating system from an image. What you are doing is writing over the corrupted hard drive (and the virus which has taken over your system) with the saved image that does not have the virus.
Some of these things actually encrypt the hard drive and there is essentially no foolproof way to recover. Since it's a new computer, hopefully you won't lose too much if you have to go back to square zero - i.e. reformat and reload OS.
