computer oddity: Turn off God's Link to the Lost

[CBGLuthier]

I repair computers for a living. I had a laptop in and I noticed that the usual Microsoft "turn off computer" link on the login page had been changed to "Turn off God's link to the Lost". This went away after I cleaned it of viri and spyware and did the SP 2 upgrade.


I asked the owners about it this morning when they picked it up and they said it had been that way since they bought it brand new.

It was a Dell laptop.

Has anyone ever seen this before? I haven't researched to see what is involved in changing that link but it doesn't seem like something that MS would want people to fool with too much.

I googled the phrase and got nothing.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. It could be something being put on there by Dell.

Or a zealot in their install area.

[salvorhardin]

2. Are they connected by broadband?

I've seen computers get infested with crap within minutes of being connected to the internet.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Oh, I have too

They say an unprotected machine has less than 15 minutes. The owners are on broadband but they do have a DSl router which provides a little bit of firewall protection.

Usually I can find where someone else has had the same problem by searching the internet. The uniqueness of this is what is a little odd.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Maybe it was the computer description.

Something you can easily customize by right-clicking on My Computer, going to Properties | Computer Name and typing in a value for "Computer description".

[DS1]

5. Most likely answer here

:-)