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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
Did you check browser history/download history?

Nope. And I have decided to go to cybertechhelp.com and let them hand hold me through the process. Guy at work suggests a reformat and reinstall. I really do now want to do that unless it is my only option.

Thanks to all who have responded.

52 posted on 12/30/2009 2:33:11 PM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
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To: don-o
Just got off the phone with my daughter as we work on the teenage girls system...she had installed a new Windows 7,...64 bit variety with McAfee Anti Virus plus 2010 version....prior to putting the computer back on the internet....

which is via a Verizon DSL router....

But after a period of time ...days the girl says it acts strange...

She is on Facebook a lot....which is known to sometimes get infected.

53 posted on 12/30/2009 3:03:00 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: don-o
Nope. And I have decided to go to cybertechhelp.com and let them hand hold me through the process. Guy at work suggests a reformat and reinstall. I really do now want to do that unless it is my only option.

May not work with certain kinds of Rootkits. Some of those are pretty nasty, and will re-write the firmware of your system. Might be worth a visit to a computer store to have BIOS re-flashed before you do a re-install.

56 posted on 12/30/2009 4:12:45 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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