If you have Panda Security anti-virus software installed on your computer, look out, because your last virus scan may have bricked your PC. A mistake may have flagged files on your computer as malicious.
If you've run a security scan with Panda Security recently but haven't restarted your computer, don't restart it!
Panda Security has updated the affected programs, but a fix for systems that require manual installation of the misflagged files hasn't been deployed quite yet. The company's answer for people who lost their boot files is not to restart their computers.
This isn't the only time that anti-virus programs have caused issues in home computers either. A few weeks ago, Norton would crash computers or browsers using a popular encryption service.
If you don't have an anti-virus program installed or want a quick refresher on how to do just that, then you'll want to check out my three simple steps on detecting and removing a virus.