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I started getting a weird message "Encrypting file system - Back up your file encryption key"

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Mar 15, 202646508 views
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I started getting a strange message when I start my computer. An icon appears in the system tray, and a popup tells me "Encrypting file system - Back up your file encryption key". I know what EFS is, but I don't use it. To my knowledge, I don't have any encrypted files on my partition. I have searc…

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Fix for: I started getting a weird message "Encrypting file system - Back up your file encryption key"

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Just had this yesterday - 4th Jan 2014. A trojan has installed itself - even with Norton Internet Security installed :-( Used command in administrative Command Window to find the encrypted file called in Startup folder which was a Trojan. Used Norto…

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