[MHGinTN]

When my laptop with Vista Home Premium got a bad bug from my grandson ‘visiting’ a website I had not approved of, the crash was complete. I had to wipe the system and start completely at the beginning again. For that I had Vista Home discs and had no problem reloading the entire process and the updates which I had saved on discs. That is no longer possible with the way the systems are loaded tot he machine nowadays. I even have the Windows 98 discs and updates. I keep threatening the slow running laptop with wiping it out and loading Windows 98 onto it, but it doesn’t seem to care enough to do its best.

[verga]

I am taking a class on computer/ internet security. One of the 20 something year old geeks teaching the class said today that much of the current malware acts like a virus/worm/Trojan horse. Doing a wipe / rewrite does not always get them out since some of the code embeds itself and is preset to emerge again after a system wipe. You literally have to remove everything and do a complete rewrite, not the partial that many systems do.

Don't know if that will help you but it is worth a shot.