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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Lexington, Virginia
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
Windows 7 has been extremely stable in our tests. Our benchmarks have it going faster than a MacBook and even faster than Windows XP. We've had the discussion of PC versus Mac before, but no matter what, you'll eventually wind up with a program that you wish would run, but can't because it's a Mac.
I use them both daily and they're both fine machines, but PCs are not only cheaper, they're still the market leader and most software is written for them. Sure, I do IT stuff as a career, but I've never had a virus before. It's really just about being cautious where you browse. Stay off those porn sites. ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Seattle
Age: 44
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
If you're looking for any other ideas maybe it's time to toss Windows and its anti-viruse software out of a proverbial window and go with Ubuntu?
Proud to be Windows free for 7 years.
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
Ran it and it only found 1 tracking cookie. I haven't gotten any warnings in a few days since my last full MWB scan so perhaps I'm in the clear. We'll see.
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
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As long as the majority of activities that I do are written with PCs in mind, that's the OS I want to stick with. And Matty, I would say that's probably true. If you start seeing messages again, I would be a little concerned about a rootkit, but it sounds like it's all clear.
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
If you have that issue, you just have to rename the .exe file. Most of the Vundo variants block programs from running until you rename them.
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
Wow I am in!
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I did rename it and still had trouble getting it to run.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Frederick, MD
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
I'm a big advocate of SUPERAntispyware now after using it on a client's PC not long ago. Runs right from a Thumb Drive, so no installation on the host machine and does a great job cleaning stuff up. I have SUPERAntispyware, MalwareBytes, HiJackThis and Spybot on a small (64MB!) thumb drive that I use to help clean up messes.
Although, the only safe way to make sure the virus is 100% gone is to wipe and reinstall...
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Roanoke, VA
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
I'm more of brute force kind of IT tech in our school district: folder redirection (My Documents) and re-image.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: chesapeake, va
Age: 60
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
I have a question which is about my office computer. They are about 7 months old now and I keep getting these up date notices in the bottom right of my screen. If its software I have, should I load the updates? So far I have been just closing them but the other day I started to wonder if that's something I should be loading. I've heard all the updates can really slow down your computer. I guess I could call the suport number as I have hours of free support when I purchased them and I think we have used like 5 minutes. All of my business is done on web based applications so I probably purchased way more computer then I needed. My goal this year was to learn more about computers and so far I have learned how to use the multi function printer, scanner, etc... so we can send stuff out in different ways. Next is to learn how to scane in paper work and save it instead of files for ever customer.
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Re: Computer Help!!!!
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Virus or unwanted program 'BAT/Agent.148 [virus]' detected in file 'C:\System Volume Information\_restore{202550A8-7A33-4BCA-9586-051D24DDBF8F}\RP957\A0084210.bat. Action performed: Deny access |
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