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it says under system scanner...i have 10 viruses in hard drive, 7 in shared documents and 3 in my documents...what do i do

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all of a sudden....my system scanner ...popped up and said my computer was infected and in danger of crashing...what do i do...it says i have 10 viruses in hard drive ,,,7 in shared documents and three in my documents and says window security is affected.

all of a sudden....my system scanner ...popped up and said my computer was infected and in danger of crashing...what do i do...it says i have 10 viruses in hard drive ,,,7 in shared documents and three in my documents and says window security is affected.

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If you got this when you opened a site, there is a good chance that your computer is not infected, instead what you may have seen is a bogus scan that informs you that your computer is infected. It does this to try to dupe people into installing malicious software.

To ensure that your computer is clean, run a full scan using your anti-virus program.