Guys!! Stop arguing! Diane needs the correct advice to get her computer
going!
I went back and read all the email from this thread.
>1. Clock is seriously losing time.
All clocks lose a little time. Can you give us a measurement for
'seriously'? If it is more than a few seconds a day, there is a problem.
Since Diane cannot boot or read anything from a floppy, she should try
at least one created on another computer. If other computers can read
the disks but hers cannot, that is strike two. Disconnect and Reconnect
all cable connections to the floppy. If it still fails to read, buy a
new drive. Can the drive write a disk? If yes, can it read what it wrote?
I fail to see what good a system restore will do. Most times a restore
point contains the spyware and Trojans. The correct advice is to turn
off system restore and run scans.
Jim: What if it is just kids playing around? Saying, 'How much damage
can we do?'
Fly......
JIM wrote:
>
> Ivan,
>
> > Jim, I agree!!! I still think that one should do
> > sweeps for Spyware,
>
> I also don't think that spyware or viruses or whatever will do all of
> this.
> It just sounds like a tired old machine. I personall think that using
> System
> Restore to go back to an earlier time trumps scans for malware.
> There's no
> benefit to the bad guys in make disable a computer, that could
> otherwise be
> used to send viruses etc
>
> Jim
>
>
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