How a startup file can be damaged?

Anyone know how a startup file can be damaged? My sister takes good care of his relatively new computer, we're afraid to replace it with the exact model even if we do not know how this problem happened. Thank you!

Guess what... we discovered his virus protection was not updated / is not paid on time. She got a virus less than a day after his protection failed. Scary. Thank you very much for your help!

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