Posted on 01/03/2009 8:48:34 PM PST by Swordmaker
The good news is that most of this malware vectoring is, to use a word, retail as opposed to wholesale. The process of getting individuals to infect their own machines is far less efficient than what can happen in the Windows world where machines can infect other machines without human interaction or awareness.
I can that the hardware diagnostic disk that comes with the puter can usually (often?) spot bad RAM.
As for your daughter losing data.. “Command S”!!
Tell her whenever you take a think break, long breath, command s - save. Especially while she’s having problems.
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