"We only lose what we don't backup."
Can you reveal why you can't reload XP?
RANSOMWARE WARNING!
First of all, I’m not a computer expert, though I have hadcomputers since the 1970s. But after two strokes and a recent accident that
required 5 weeks hospital stay I believe I am no longer the straight thinker I
may have been earlier.
My old Levono was running fine with XP Professional whenthere came up a frame saying there was a problem, and go to a special Microsoft
program called Reimagine to find out what was wrong. Stupid as I am, I decided
to try out this program and buy only if I felt it was very good. I’ve done so
with other programs and have not hadproblems. To try this one I had to download and install it, naturally. I saw too
late it does not come with an uninstall, nor was it from Microsoft. By the way,
I often see that name being banded by other programs, and I think Microsoft
should vigorously prosecute such frauds. Well, I have my trusted Revo
Uninstaller to uninstall if I did not like Reimagine ---I thought!.
The Reimagine program started my computer in safe mode, thendid some reporting on the structure of my machine. It also said it found a
Trojan, but a scan less than an hour before had found nothing at all and since
I had not otherwise been online I’m certain that Trojan exists only in the head
of the evil programmer of Reimagine. Of course, to fix the trojan I would have
to buy the program, but I declined.
Now started theblackmail phase built into this creation. I cannot get my otherwise perfectly
functioning machine out of safe mode however much and whatever I try, and the
program cannot be uninstalled. My Seagate backup is disconnected and to load XP
again from the disc is impossible. An email to some “help desk” got no reply,
of course. I don’t know if paying would release my machine from the blackmailer
but I’m certainly not going to pay them a penny, rather buy a new hard drive if
I must.
Please WARN ALL YOUR REDADERS FOR THE REIMAGINE PROGRAM! THISIS RANSOMWARE!
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