I thought I would pass along a success story on dealing with this terrible virus...
Fortunately, when I set my Dell laptop up this past August, I initially called the user dell_john, but decided I didn't like that, so I created another administrator - john - and that is what I have been using until yesterday when I got the dreaded virus (despite running AVG and having all my updates). I ran malwarebytes, superantispyware, and also downloaded avast. Malwarebytes and superantispyware may have to be renamed in order to run because the virus is looking for those names. I also loaded avast (free) because it can scan the entire computer before it loads windows (after you reboot). After the virus was removed, nothing would run by just clicking on it, some things you had to right mouse click and run as administrator, others wouldn't run at all. I though I was going to have to do a total reinstall.... For some reason, I decided to come back in as dell_john and voila .... everything worked. All I needed to do was boot back into the old user, export my stuff from outlook, boot back in and import. It's all good! If you don't already have a second administrative user, I would recommend doing it quickly! Thanks, John Harvey _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/003c01cabfa3$cbe298c0$63a7ca...@[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
