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To: Arthur McGowan; RightOnline; Yosemitest; ThomasThomas; Bellflower; Slump Tester; Dan Nunn; ...
Thanks, all for the tips! System Restore got it.

Norman Malware Remover didn't, and AVG usually gets these, so I figured while it may be a virus, I'd likely have got it with a scan. Still, you never know.

As for Apples, we often have these computers tied into a net where I work, even though this particular one is personal. The result of having an Apple (whose owner thought they were immune to viruses) tie into a windows based net is often mayhem, and that's a no-no on an oil rig. Apple might run one of the later versions of the software I run, but those are five times the cost of the version I purchased years ago, do little more that I haven't figured out how to do myself, and come with a quarterly tab for an electronic key close to the price I paid for the software when I bought it (annually), 'cause now there's a boom on.

That dog won't hunt, and I've become not only a fair laptop mechanic, but pretty good at scrounging the right part...

If my old Win98SE machine hadn't died in a puddle from a leaking window seal I might be using it yet. (8^D)

(I still have working Win 3.11 and Win95 machines...kept mainly as a curiosity for when the kids complain about these booting up slowly.)

25 posted on 10/23/2012 9:00:29 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I understand your attachment to Windows and your fear of Apple.
My brother is an electronics expert, and a trained bank robber (his specialty is bank vaults, security systems, money drop machines, and fire alarms).
His company software pretty much demands Windows.
But any large apple can handle it, and it there becomes a problem with the Windows side, you just delete it, and reload it.
It's not that hard to learn the Apple OS, and it doesn't take much time.
Problem solved.
40 posted on 10/23/2012 11:08:24 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple. Fight ... or Die !)
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