Re: Spyware problem / prevention

From: What's in a Name? (maxpro4u_at_nomail.afraid.org)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: 29 Oct 2005 03:45:06 GMT

"Richard Fangnail" richardfangnail@excite.com on 10/28/2005 in
<1130534514.772208.279450@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> after much
thought,came up with this jewel:

> This morning I couldn't start any programs and ctrl+alt+delete would
> do nothing. I called support and they got me to run Scandisk. This
> fixed the problem.
>
> First of all, could only spyware have caused this problem?
>
> If it was spyware, was it a particular spyware program?
>
> I downloaded Spybot and it found many things and I fixed them but I'm
> not sure if the spyware that caused the orig. problem was eliminated.
> Spybot keeps a log in an awkward place.

You need to make backups of all important files on removable media now.
Your drive may be failing.
-max 

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