Re: System and Msconfig closing

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Hi there,

It was a virus in fact, it was on one of my partitions and also copied
itself on my external drive.

The name of the file was dfawrrk.exe

I had an antivirus program but was not able to track it. Then I
downloaded Dr. Web and it immediately found it and removed. The trick
was not to browse any drives before running the anti-virus.

Thanks,
Robert
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