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‎08-07-2017 11:25 AM

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Product: Hp Pavilion

Hello an indian fellow called me and told me my computer has a virus he showed me the virus and then locked my computer and demanded he have 200$ to fix it. i have family photos on that laptop please can someone help me the screen says start up password

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‎08-07-2017 05:05 PM

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@isacm7945

 

Sorry to hear that you got scamed with the SYSKEY lock.

 

Look here.

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/windows-7-locked-after-scam-cal...

 

REO

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