Computer problem

[Rick Z]

Thanks for the replies. Not sure which Trojan. We cannot get anything to open now.
Have a computer geek comeing to look atit.
May hot be on for several days as Our Son is getting married Saturday.
Library is not always open when I can get here.

Rick

[TyroneFly]

Rick,

Do you have Comcast internet? If so go to your comcast online account and download McAfee it's free. I use both McAfee and Webroot. I have them running 24/7 and have scheduled full scans nightly with definition files updated every 15 minutes.

Good luck with wiping out the trojan.nasty little buggers for sure.

[Betty Hiner]

My son had "something" attack his computer, to the point it would not do anything ... nothing would open or run. They were messing around with it one nite before work, and one of the guys suggested taking the battery out, and replacing it ... no, not a new battery, the same one, just separate it from the machine, and put it back in again. Don't know why it worked, but it did. He was able to use the disk and reboot to the factory settings. Sure he lost everything that was on it, but it does work.

[EdD]

My son had "something" attack his computer, to the point it would not do anything ... nothing would open or run. They were messing around with it one nite before work, and one of the guys suggested taking the battery out, and replacing it ... no, not a new battery, the same one, just separate it from the machine, and put it back in again. Don't know why it worked, but it did. He was able to use the disk and reboot to the factory settings. Sure he lost everything that was on it, but it does work.

He flushed the CMOS BIOS and did a low-level format, uninterrupted by the virus/trojan/malware at the cost of his HD contents, which were probably still there but not accessible except by "special stuff" (geeks with the right tools and skills).

Forget Hogwarts. If you want to be a wizard, try computer classes in school.



Ed, not a wizard (just a geek)

[Betty Hiner]

Yaaa. That's what I thought, too!