Re: Ctrl+Alt+Del will not work and allow me to the log on screen?
> Do you still have the disks that came with your system? If so, a format
> and reinstall will be an easy fix.
>
> max
The OP (THardy3@gmail.com) might also appreciate the valuable info available
through the link you so kindly provided here, Dustin. Thank you.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI
You may well be correct regarding OE being 'flakey', but I'm just a little
confused when I see that Google groups shows a logical sequence of events.
See:-
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...read/thread/3c330aeac35f160c/5f8386bc3e6fdcb9
If Google can get it right, I don't understand why microsoft OE does not.
Yet another connundrum! <g>
> Heed the advice offered. And if you don't mind me asking, why do you want
> to reinstall windows?
You ask why. I feel that it is the only positive step that I can take to
make absolutely certain that all malware is removed from this PC. Even
without 'surfing' the 'net, I note changes occuring on my machine (as
evidenced by using HiJackThis). It appears that by simply accessing the
newsgroups here and 'that other place', together with brief visits to Aumha
forums
(
http://forum.aumha.org/index.php?sid=da6607a8c2bab701a17124c9391864fc) I
end up with HJT entries that I neither want nor asked for. I'd really like
to know just how others can find a way to compromise machine, even though I
theoretically have been using good protection software (and am now behind a
Netgear router).
Re-installation is, for me, far quicker than following procedures to 'clean'
malware from the machine! That in itself, though, has not yet uncovered just
*how* I become infected in the first place. <g>
BD.
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"Dustin Cook" <spamfilterineffect.see.sig@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in
> news:eEnfoOa5HHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> Hi Dustin.
>>
>> On my PC using OE6, the first reply showing in answer to
>> THardy3@gmail.com is from you.
>>
>> I see no response from maxpro4u@nomail.afraid.org until his detail
>> appears in the post from you.
>
> Your news server may have had a hiccup, or OE is just being it's old flaky
> self. Usenet doesn't always keep things in order... Shrug
>
>> Whilst here, can you suggest the best way to re-install Windows XP so
>> as not to lose all data?
>
> Sure can, but if you do a reinstall, you'll need to re-apply any
> patches/security updates microsoft has released. I'd highly recommend you
> get the machine behind a hardware based firewall for this.
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI
>
> Heed the advice offered. And if you don't mind me asking, why do you want
> to reinstall windows?
>
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> Dustin Cook
> Author of BugHunter - MalWare Removal Tool - v2.2c
> email: bughunter.dustin@gmail.com.removethis
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