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To: WackySam

“Every IT professional I know recommends this method.”

I am not an IT professional but I have 30 years of experience working with and repairing my own PCs. The method you recommend is routine for IT professionals, but may be beyond the experience level of the OP (no offense intended). There are easier and less drastic measures to deal with what sounds like a minor malware infection.


16 posted on 11/09/2009 8:31:27 AM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Hacklehead
I am not an IT professional but I have 30 years of experience working with and repairing my own PCs. The method you recommend is routine for IT professionals, but may be beyond the experience level of the OP (no offense intended). There are easier and less drastic measures to deal with what sounds like a minor malware infection.

The correct course of action isn't dictated by the experience of the OP. If he isn't knowledgeable enough to re-format and re-install his software he should take it to someone who is.
19 posted on 11/09/2009 9:23:03 AM PST by WackySam (To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
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To: Hacklehead; WackySam

“Every IT professional I know recommends this method.”

The “IT professional” will have an image of the computer which makes that process extremely easy. He probably even has an imaged computer ready that can be swapped out with the “broken” computer and only have to copy files. The home user will not usually have that available.


20 posted on 11/09/2009 9:48:56 AM PST by NathanR (,)
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