System halted! Must power down

Tonight we realized that our desktop PC was powered off. When we started it, instead of the pretty blue screen where you enter your password, this is what we see on a black background and white letters

Type the password and ...

--press to leave password security enabled.

--press to disable password security.

Enter password:

When I enter our password, it says

incorrect password

Number of unsuccessful password attempts: 3

System halted! Must power down.

First of all could we have a virus

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Also I can't move past this screen to download anything. When we try to restart the same screen comes up. We've had this Dell PC for about 4 years.

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msgale

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November 11th, 2006 15:00

Please read all the replies to your posting on the Virus form. http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_virus&message.id=57269

P.S. To any one else reading this post, if the user can not Logon how can he/she run hijack this? That is why I posted. Whether the is or is not a malware issue is unknown at this time, no one can diagnose the problem if the tools can not be run.

zbestwun2001

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November 11th, 2006 15:00

read my response in the Virus forum.

Message Edited by zbestwun2001 on 11-11-200610:00 AM

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