Re: XP holding me to ransome
Some of the early variants of this type of malware where nothing more than an executable and a run on startup registry entry, which created the pop up every 30 minutes, then took you to website to enter your credit card details if you clicked on "buy" the software. So long you had the sense not to buy the software, the malware itself was pretty harmless to the PC, just annoying pop ups. It could be that was all you had. You'll soon find out.
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