Yes, lets go back to the start...what exactly is this supposed virus doing? You never really said, just that he thinks he might have a virus.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < revsamarsh...@earthlink.net> wrote: > What exactly is the nature of this fatal virus? > > Could it possibly be a faulty machine? > > I know a lot of advice has been given on this, but if it has some serious > problems it is possible it is just a bad machine. > > Stewart > > > > At 02:08 PM 12/21/2009, you wrote: > >> My son has a new Dell Mini10 that seems to have a fatal virus. >> >> He lives in a house with others and they have an unsecured network >> connectoion. About 10 days ago he thinks he got a virus and the only way he >> could find to get rid of it was sto reformat the hared drive. He did that. >> Reinstalled the Windows 7 OS and thought he was fine. >> >> Not so. The "virus" (if that's what it is came back. So he repeated the >> steps. Downloaded and purchased McAfee virus Protection and thought he was >> fine. Again, the virus came back, this time destroying McAfee. >> >> He has since reformatted the drive several times and each time the "virus" >> returns. >> >> Do you think there really IS a virus in the network or is this >> somestranger than faction paronoia? >> >> Is there any way to determine whether this IS or is NOT a virus? Is there >> any hope that Dell will take the machine back and fix it and send a new one >> since it's under warranty? >> >> Any advice will be appreciated. I bought the machine for ng son as an >> early Christmas prresent and so far and so far it's been a$300 white >> elephant that has caused nothing but trouble. >> >> Thanks in advance for nay help you can provide!! >> >> Warm regards and thanks in advance, >> Gail Miller >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
