Before Windows XP can even boot, it freezes the computer with this on the screen:
:) :)
Bloody!
Jun. 4, 1989.
I looked up the date, and 6/4/89 was the date of the Chinese Army's Tiananmen Square massacre of college students. The virus is a DOS virus, and I have no clue how it's happening. His HDD partiton type is NTFS; I don't think DOS programs can run in NTFS.
It activates after 128 restarts of the computer, so this must've been a long time ago when he got it.
Anyone have any ideas? I can't do anything.