John Richard Smith wrote:
My daughter feels sorry for me : for my birthday present I wanted a new toilet bag, so she gave me one. You can admire it here :
http://haulrich.net/Family/toiletbag.jpg
A really fetching little number would go well in any art gallery ! Title : Kaj's bagged her in blue in the cubist style.
Fetchy indeed!
I can restore a windblows in 20 min.
LLF HD and bios reinstall about another hour or so, depending on how efficiently you want to wipe the HD.
If you do enough trouble, you can remove any virus within 5 minutes, if you have more, you can fix it in 15 minutes. -First thing to do is enable your firewall. -Second thing to do is pop up your taskmanager and click the processes tab.
Now i assume the general reader is an average consumer who cannot distinguish all real windows system-files from fake process files so just write down any current running proces exactly as stated in that list.
Some viruses cloak themselves as system files that look like originals (e.g. exp1orer.exe->notice the 'l' is replaced for the number '1') these are very tricky names that make it hard to see it at first.
-Pull all the written proces-files one by one through google and see if any of the McaFee or Symantec sites pop up with viral info-like pages regarding that file.
If there are only pages describing a microsoft system-file process, it's not a virus.
In the case you see pages from McAfee, Symantec or any other anti-virus developer popping up, you'll likely have a virus.
On the Symantec site you can download a free removal tool for the virus.
Beware, some commercial anti-spyware or anti-virus developers have sites up where common windows system files are being made suspicious and they attempt to make you buy their product so you can figure out if this is true.
Only trust the real names regarding antivirus info. If it is a real virus, you won't find info about microsoft system files regarding your search phrase.
A free tool you can use to remove spy-ware is Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/), you can freely download daily updates through the applications internal update process.
Rules to apply before attaching an XP-box to the internet: Enabling the default firewall on your dialup adapter in Windows XP is the first thing that can save many headaches. Avoid using Outlook (Express) and Internet Explorer is the other.
If the firewall is enabled, dialin to your ISP and go to the windows update site and download all critical security patches. (no service packs, just the security patches) Then install antivirus and anti-spy-ware software. Update both system- and anti-annoy-software on regular basis.
This keeps your box pretty safe from most annoy-ware (as nothing more than that, is what most viruses are anyway)
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