Re: Thanks! David



From: "Morisot" <Morisot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Found this thread when I was searching for "Winfixer" (aarrrrrggghh)
|
| Followed your steps 1 and 2. Now - NO "winfixer" or "your adult friends"
| plaguing my son's computer.
|
| Thanks,
| M.
|
| ...and David, just FYI, it was a tricky situation with a computer that had
| just had its original hard drive (with 4 years of son's digital pictures and
| movies) preserved by making it a slave drive to a new hard drive - booted
| with the original pre-SP1 XP OS. (Nothing updated on the new drive yet - and
| he picked up this "Winfixer" plague!) Now maybe I can install SP2!
| Thanks again.


I am glad I was able to assist you with my tools and information.

Now just make sure the ONLY version of Sun Java installed is v5 update 6 such as...

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06

Any older version(s) *must* be removed as there is a known association with getting the
Vundo Trojan and vulnerable versions of Sun Java.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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