Got the same thing a month ago, and it did the same thing to me. Scared the crap out of me to the extent that I finally went out and bought a Macbook Pro. One of my sons is a computer genius , and came over and fixed it by doing a version of your method, but the psycological damage was done. I'll never use that computer for online work again ever! When the virus went looking for bank and credit card info (which it did!), I was done with microsoft. I'm 60+ years old. I should of done it 15 years ago. Thanks for posting that. It is exactly the same experience I had. I thought I was crazy. Thanks for your post. I don't feel so crazy anymore!

Best of Health to You,

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