PC taken hostage by softwear

[Xfire Keenmike aka cull]

Hi, I don't know if others know this either way it is good. Sometimes an antivirus softwear will take your pc hostage. In my case I have two partitions set up on my xp computer. Few months ago I must have repaired a partition infected by a hostage taking thing during a full system scan with avast. I went to it this morning and noticed no pop ups so I installed avast from cnet and did a full system scan to repair my most recent hostage infection. Now I have two working xp partitions.

[Soap Mactavish]

sounds like the antivirus is just disguised. There have been several instances where i have been greeted with antivirus warning that are just viruses waiting to be installed.

[Xfire Keenmike aka cull]

On both of my occasions the pop up has been a different kind of program holding my pc hostage. I am glad to have found a solution.