Comments on: I’m Not Dead…

By: WunderKraut

WunderKraut — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:53:49 +0000

Yeah, this new virus scanner lets me make a bootable disk for such emergencies….I plan on doing that.

Carbonite is my friend today!

By: Tejash Vishalpura

Tejash Vishalpura — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:30:24 +0000

Another reason to consider a MAC.

Anyway, you should see if Carbonite can mail you DVD of your system drive. I use a similar offering through “MOZY.com”, and they offer at a nominal cost a DVD copy of your files – for a speedy recovery.

Your only way to kill this thing will be to boot up a copy of the virus scanner from another bootable source. You may be able boot-up on a USB flash drive. You have to interrupt the boot-up process, and go into Safe Mode. While there you should be able to change the settings were you allow the next bootup to occur using the USB drive (with the Virus Scanner preloaded). This is the only way the virus can be rooted out of the registry.

Of all things, do not, and I mean do not try loading the older hard drive onto this PC. The risk of virus transfer still exists.

Make sure the laptop also does not share the home network with the PC. Quarantine the desktop.

You may have already gone through these steps. I apologize if I am being presumptuous or redundant. Let us know what happens.

-Tejash

By: Cullen

Cullen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:37:53 +0000

Yeah, I use AVG Free and Advanced System Care (free) and never have a problem. I used to use Norton, and had many, many issues. I don’t think that Norton makes a bad product, however, I DO think that people write code that specifically targets Norton users.

By: Pa Pa PA

Pa Pa PA — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:43:20 +0000

I use Computer Associates Virus and fire wall software and I never get a cold…. Your welcome to my compy of it cause it’s free.

PAPAPA

By: Crotalus

Crotalus — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:14:54 +0000

I’m still here too dude. I dig the Star Trek references; throw a few of them in and I will forgive just about any lapse in posting. And the ‘a’ key excuse is a new one. Highly original and almost believable.