Last night (or this morning I guess) I was getting attacked with messages about a virus. This stopped me from getting into any programs, including internet browsers (which still wouldn't work even in safe mode with networking for whatever reason). I'm no computer expert despite the amount of time I spend on them. So anyway, I do some research on the virus, and it turns out it's not even a real virus but just a scam to get me to buy a full anti-virus software. I looked around to see the safest way to repair it, and hopefully not lose my data. After doing plenty of research via my iPod's web browser, I hesitantly clicked on System Restore, and went back to August 1st just to be safe.
After about 5-10 minutes I come back to check my computer, and my desktop background looks like normal, without virus warnings popping up by the second. I click on Google Chrome and it takes a while to load, but eventually I have access to the internet from my PC. I opened other programs to be sure and everything is working. After a while it got up to normal speed, but I'm going to clean up some things from the hard drive that I don't need since I noticed I'm taking up almost 100 GB of 140.
Hopefully everything continues to run smoothly.
Good that everything is fine for now. Such scams are definitely to be avoided, they seem quite annoying (though I've never had them).
I've had one of those that open IE like 50 times with a anti virus ad. Really annoying....
This is what happens when you use a trail version. It's nothing serious. I see that quite a lot because most the softwares I use are trail versions xD
What do you keep in your HDD? Consuming 100 GB isn't easy 
There are some sites that pretends that they are scanning your computer but they are just spywares or trojans. Its irritating. The best way to avoid is to avoid anything suspicious.
U shouldn’t open any unknown emails or links that appearing with such kind of emails & I do agree with koshai its best to avoid.
System restore? Not that's something I never use :D I prefer to reinstalling the windows(or restoring an recent disc image backup), than housing a large amounts of useless backup data on my hard-drive.
Ow, and btw, a 140GB HDD? Are you using a laptop? as I find it a bit sall for a desktop computer...
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Glad that everything is ok, at least for now. I never read those weird emails, and aparently you clicked on one.