2. Reformat or reset to factory settings Sometimes a virus or other nefarious entities have overrun the computer so badly that you might need to simply reformat or reset it to factory settings.

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Investigator Mark Callahan of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said each of the three victims got a pop-up ad on their computer screens warning them their computer was infected with a virus.

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