Hey – this is my mother’s computer, which suddenly is being very strange.<\/p>\n
It’s a dell desktop running Windows 7 Home.<\/p>\n
Everything was fine last night, but when we got up this morning the screen said “RTC is reset, BIOS Setup default has been loaded. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility.”<\/p>\n
I had no idea what to do, so I hit F2, thinking it would run the startup repair. The internet icon and antivirus were missing at startup, so I restarted.<\/p>\n
When I tried to search what was wrong, Firefox claimed that the connection was not secure. I can’t get anything to work with the internet, though it claims to be connected.<\/p>\n
I tried running system restore, but it didn’t work. Claimed the antivirus was holding a file it needed, and to disable the antivirus and try again. It was when I did that that I noticed that it claimed today to be February 1, 2013, and 1:00 PM (It’s roughly 11:00 AM right now.)<\/p>\n
I’m running system restore again. What else should I try? I’ve never seen something like this happen before and Google is not helping.<\/p>\n
EDIT: The first thing I saw after the restore was AVG reporting a threat to C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\WTClient.exe. Now I’m fairly sure that’s a file for the net, but I told it to take care of it. It’s currently restarting.<\/p>\n
Restart complete, and it claimed to restore to 7\/3\/14, yet the clock still says 2\/1\/13 and firefox still claims no secure connection. Help?<\/p>\n
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