Wow some great info Tom. Do you have a host file manager that you use or recommend? The Hostsman one i started using recently works well,...
Thanks for the info Tom i forgot to mention they use AOL and are against trying anything new. I may try to convince them to give Firefox another...
Working on a friends PC that was infested with Trojans and Spyware. He has a few teenagers around that love to go where they shouldnt. Machine...
Ok i installed TI9 to test and right off the bat i had trouble making the restore CD. It would not recognize the CDR in the drive. I fired up...
Thanks for the replies. If i go with TI9 it ll be for imaging only. Mirra looks interesting but ill have to pass. I like Backup MyPC and have...
I do that as well and use a copy of Nero to burn to a DVDRW and then i also use Synctoy to sync up to another machine on my network. But id like...
bVolk, The backup to DVD-RW media would be for files and folders only i.e. My Documents, certain data files, email etc. and not for imaging...
Are you saying the user has to type in command line instructions to do a restore? This is on a Windows XP machine. If it works? Is this a...
I have a client who's HD was failing. She did not have any backup in place and experienced some data loss. The need to reinstall all of her...
Well i installed Nod32 on one machine and F-prot for Windows on the other 98se machine and both seemed to have relativley little impact on system...
Let me chime in here. Im at the location now and tried bitdefender pro 9.0 plus. Looks and works well on the one XP machine i installed it to....
Started setting up a wireless network for a small office with 6 PC's. Router is the Netgear WGR614 V6 wireless router and the netgear USB...
Yes i did disable DNS per the instructions at that link and rebooted. It doesnt seem to do it with all google searches but it does do it with...
So aside from PG3 Full and NOD32 what are you disagreeing with here? And i agree with the imaging idea and may use the copy of ghost i have....
Blackspear, Thanks for the very informative advice. I had used Host files in the past but had gotten away from it due to being to lazy to update...
Lyn, Funny i went through this same thing about 9 months ago with a young girl with MS. She would click on anything that came her way. After...
Thanks guys for the replys. Ill check out Arovax (had not heard of it) and will probably stick with Windows firewall. I did try installing ZA...
Hi All, Setting up a new PC running Win XP Home w/SP2 for a friend who has a brain injury and severe memory loss and has not used a PC since the...
I think you may be right about AVG. After updatying to the latest definitions it no longer detected IRC/Backdoor.SDBot.25.AD. I had also followed...
OK here goes. Ran both TDS-3 Full system scan and Trends housecall. I also have the laptop with me, and she had both NAV and AVG running and both...
Has anyone heard of this Trojan before? AVG has detected this on a friends PC, but i cant find any relevant info on it. The only thing close to...
Thanks Derek i appreciate it. Ill delete a few of the erroneus registry entries to shorten the post a little. I was a little concerned when i...
Have been doing battle with a clients computer the last 2 days. Appeared to be infected with Sasser (had popup about LSASS and was shutting...
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