You're going to LOVE this story.

Last night when I clicked on any icon I got this pop up OPEN WITH thing on the screen. I remembered this happened before.

Now I know to look in Window Task Mgr and processes to find a 3 letter virus with a .exe after it.

Couldn't find one.

I just called up Verizon, which I knew would bump me up to Mcaffee and sure enough this happened.

Seems THINGS HAVE CHANGED WITH MCAFFEE and they tell me "you have to pay $89 for us to help you with this".

They then said "call back Verizon, this is a verizon problem"

I call back Verizon, told them what happened, and a nice guy did the remote hosting and saw the OPEN WITH pop up and he says "hm, hm hm".

He does a reboot in safe mode with networking. He took control again, he did some things, NOTHING WORKED. still the OPEN WITH pop up thing.

So I'm pretty quiet and he's going hm hm hm and he says "Ah, I see, the virus has cloned your Mozilla Firefox, because when you were in Mozilla Firefox something was downloaded accidentally and it had a virus.

He continued "Verizon Internet Security Suite killed the virus but because the virus CLONED ALL YOUR FILES, VERIZON INTERNET SECURITY SUITE GOT RID OF THEM TOO.

This is exactly what i said to the guy.

(He was remote hosting, but I could use the mouse at my end too)

I said "mind if I show you something" and he said "go ahead".

I went to yahoo, I typed in OPEN WITH VIRUS

A lot of links came up. I clicked on one that says at the top of the site

WINDOWS XP FILE ASSOCIATION FIXES

I then scrolled down to the line that says Fixes .exe files (or something to that effect).

The guy gets all excited and says "ooh oooh, this is what the Mcaffee people use".

HE THEN SAYS:

OH MY GOD, THANK YOU, NOW I CAN DO THIS.

he does his thing, THEN HE SHOWED ME WHAT HE DID SO I CAN DO THE SAME THING IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN.

I thank the guy and guess what he says:

My dear. THANK YOU!!!!

ROFL