Virus - please read

[Web]

If anyone comes across an email from the post office don't open it. My dad made the unfortunate mistake of opening it because he was tracking a package from the post office and didnt pay it no mind.

Be warned it turns off your firewall automatically, crashes the boot screen, and disables your hard drive partition.

[Ginto8]

that must be a serious vulnerability in IE or outlook, whichever you use

[avansc]

I actually fixed this 2 days ago on a clients machine.

you need to start the taskmanager as soon as you log in, and kill any weird looking processes. the culprit in my case was something like
80292811211.exe

search for that, delete is, look for it in the registry, should be under something like run once. delete that.
Then update windows. install security essentials. run that, and the you should be clean.

[Web]

Had to format dads computer, it wouldnt go past the loading screen, he couldnt get into windows.

[avansc]

Had to format dads computer, it wouldnt go past the loading screen, he couldnt get into windows.

Did you try safemode?

[Web]

wouldnt go into it, keep locking up

[N64vSNES]

What is this "email" you speak of? ELECTRONIC ENVELOPES!?!?
*drops atari*

[dandymcgee]

I just received 3 or so of these. One was from the "united states parcel service" and the other from "FaceBook". Both had no formatting whatsoever, and horrendous grammar. Plus yahoo automatically marked them as spam. I was considering opening it out of curiosity, but then decided I have more important things to do than try to break my laptop atm.