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by Dale Hampton

I have a problem on my Dell laptop at home. I do not know if this is a legitimate situation or not but it seems that Vista Anti-Virus software is trying to take over my computer.

I am running XP Professional OS and have McAfee on the laptop and it supposedly is running but this situation started suddenly yesterday while I was "surfing."

A box popped up and was labeled Visa Anti-Virus and it informed me I had been infected by a worm and it began scanning my computer and listing some things it supposedly was finding.

It says I must subscribe in order to delete the worms it has detected. I click its STOP button and I can close the box out but it continues to pop back up and again tries to scan my computer.

It shows also as an icon in the bottom right task bar. Because I had never seen anything like this before on my computer and have never heard of Vista Anti-Virus software and I have had the laptop a number of months, I am thinking the Vista Anti-Virus stuff is bogus and instead is a virus itself.

I cannot find it listed anywhere in my program listing unless it is listed under another name. I have scanned repeatedly with McAfee but it says it has found nothing.

However, the Vista stuff continually pops up while the McAfee is scanning as well as when I am doing anything else on the computer.

I have tried to restore my computer to several different previous dates and it will not allow me to do that.

When it reboots after trying to restore, the restoration screen says it is unable to restore to the date selected... and I have tried to restore to dates that show as legitimate restoration points.

Also, when I reboot and the machine displays the screen where I usually press "Control + Alternate + Delete" to proceed with my password and booting, as I normally do, it does nothing but sits there and I have to punch the OFF button and try again.

It usually will then allow me to go on but the boxes continually pop up on the screen.

Please advise what you perceive to be going on and how I can get the Vista Anti-Virus stuff off my laptop.... OR, should I take its offer to enroll and let it scan?

DAHampton@AOL.com