If it was that compromised you might want to run the system file checker,
and at the end of the day perhaps a repair installation of win

"lrh381b2" <lrh381b2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am working on my friend's computer that got lots of pop-ups, he had 15
> viruses. I removed them using Avast! Anti-virus. In quarantine, there
> were
> over 400 infected files, which I deleted. When I go to "My Computer",
> there
> is a red "X" where the hard drive picture should be, beside "Local Disk
> (C:).
> He still has occasional pop-ups. The pop-up blocker is on. I ran Windows
> Defender and Spybot S&D and removed multiple spyware applications. Any
> ideas? Thanks!