Pegged my Windows 10 PC this afternoon

[Mike Ault]

Power supply is cherry.

A 12-year-old power supply is not "cherry".

 

[Charles West]

A 12-year-old power supply is not "cherry".

I don't know why not, checks out. It's an EVGA P2 1200 watter.

 

[Mike Ault]

I don't why not, checks out. It's an EVGA P2 1200 watter.

My 8-year-old power supply went tango uniform. Hope you have better luck with yours, and I hope it doesn't take out your new motherboard when it fails. "False economy" I would say. Probably a "power fluctuation" instead of malware that caused you all this trouble.

 

[Charles West]

My 8-year-old power supply went tango uniform. Hope you have better luck with yours, and I hope it doesn't take out your new motherboard when it fails. "False economy" I would say. Probably a "power fluctuation" instead of malware that caused you all this trouble.

Ok, ok, now you freaked me out.

 

[Charles West]

All fixed. For some reason, after repeated attempts, she booted into safe mode, and I got the chance to repair the system. Yay.

 

[Mike Ault]

Which brand of malware did you discover? Did it demand that you purchase "Trump Memorabilia" to unlock your system?

 

[Charles West]

Which brand of malware did you discover? Did it demand that you purchase "Trump Memorabilia" to unlock your system?

It was called the PC App Store, a neon flashing window right in the middle of your screen, unmovable and unremovable. A real pain in the butt, but I didn't fall for it, purchasing McAfee software with a gun to my forehead. It also motivated me to research the new build I need to do, and I cleaned the heck out of the computer's inners, fan screens, and whatnot.

 

[Mike Ault]

Duplicate

 

[Mike Ault]

It was called the PC App Store, a neon flashing window right in the middle of your screen, unmovable and unremovable. A real pain in the butt, but I didn't fall for it, purchasing McAfee software with a gun to my forehead. It also motivated me to research the new build I need to do, and I cleaned the heck out of the computer's inners, fan screens, and whatnot.

I haven't had one since the late 80s back in the DOS days. A Big Green Cross in the middle of the screen that said "Disk Killer - turn me off if you dare". I dared, and it wiped out my file allocation table. I traced it back to a virus scanning program I downloaded off one of the military bulletin boards back then.

 

[Charles West]

That is precisely it: gaudy flashing graphics, like a carnival funhouse. God help you if you give these Romanian beamers your credit card number.