[Sodium_noir] Help your local neighbourhood Spikey

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My only thought that hasn't been aded is if you do have to reformat
(though trying a bootable CD first and running your checking software
*is* the best idea) be sure when you restart you partition your hard
drive in at least two sections and create a second user.

Hell, create a second user as it is, make sure it doesn't have
anything in the startup items (and likewise make sure there aren't any
all user ones) and give it a shot from there.  Something I've had
recommended to me (and still haven't listened because sometimes it
makes things damn inconvenient) is for that secondary user (which
actually becomes your primary) to not have administrative access.

Of course, all these suggestions are coming from an iMac user (and
part-time IT guy) who touches his Windows partition as little as
possible, but the two platforms are more similar than the fanatic
users like to admit.

Damn Uni (I'm off on the summers) is even e-mailing me with bloody
questions!  *sighs*

Good luck Spikey, and get a second hard drive if possible and RAID.  A
DVD burner wouldn't hurt either for backups...

-FF

On 6/29/06, Antonia Bifano <antoniabifano at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well, Spikey, there is one thing I can suggest...
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> http://www.trendmicro.com
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> They have an online virus scanner that they update frequently and works
> great. Click on Free Virus Scan.  (They also get rid of Grayware too)
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> Deny the Impossible
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> >From: "Spikey" <spikey at khaoshq.fsnet.co.uk>
> >Reply-To: sodium_noir at elsinore.net
> >To: <sodium_noir at elsinore.net>
> >Subject: Re: [Sodium_noir] Help your local neighbourhood Spikey
> >Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:59:55 +0100
> >
> >Bum Clouds!! I ran the defrag fine. Then the Disk Clean up, which is
> >suffering the same problem. The moment it goes near the infected files, it
> >crashes. Still cannot do anything to the files.
> >
> >Think I am going to have to find a copy of Windows and F disk the entire
> >computer.. rebuild from scratch. :(
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Antonia Bifano
> >   To: sodium_noir at elsinore.net
> >   Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:56 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [Sodium_noir] Help your local neighbourhood Spikey
> >
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> >   Hope the defrag works.   Might also want to run a disk cleanup (if you
> >have
> >   that utility) or get rid of all your temp files and temporary internet
> >   files.  You'd be amazed how much space those take up...
> >
> >   Then again, certain sites are lousy with malware and virii.
> >
> >   Deny the Impossible
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