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Posted by What's in a Name? on August 27, 2007, 11:47 am
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>> Do you still have the disks that came with your system? If so, a format
>> and reinstall will be an easy fix.
>>
>> max
>
> The OP (THardy3@gmail.com) might also appreciate the valuable info available
> through the link you so kindly provided here, Dustin. Thank you.
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI
>
> You may well be correct regarding OE being 'flakey', but I'm just a little
> confused when I see that Google groups shows a logical sequence of events.
> See:-
>
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.security.virus/browse_thread/thread/3c330aeac35f160c/5f8386bc3e6fdcb9
>
> If Google can get it right, I don't understand why microsoft OE does not.
> Yet another connundrum! <g>
It is not OE's fault,it is the newsgroup servers. I have been using
several different servers (for use as a backup). SBC is the one I am
using for this post.
>
>> Heed the advice offered. And if you don't mind me asking, why do you want
>> to reinstall windows?
>
> You ask why. I feel that it is the only positive step that I can take to
> make absolutely certain that all malware is removed from this PC. Even
> without 'surfing' the 'net, I note changes occuring on my machine (as
> evidenced by using HiJackThis). It appears that by simply accessing the
> newsgroups here and 'that other place', together with brief visits to Aumha
> forums
> (http://forum.aumha.org/index.php?sid=da6607a8c2bab701a17124c9391864fc) I
> end up with HJT entries that I neither want nor asked for. I'd really like
> to know just how others can find a way to compromise machine, even though I
> theoretically have been using good protection software (and am now behind a
> Netgear router).
Glad to hear you are now using a router! What,may I ask,good protection
software are you using now? What type of HJT entries are you seeing?
(please don't post entire logs)
>
> Re-installation is, for me, far quicker than following procedures to 'clean'
> malware from the machine! That in itself, though, has not yet uncovered just
> *how* I become infected in the first place. <g>
>
> BD.
What type of infections are you getting?
>>
>>> Hi Dustin.
>>>
>>> On my PC using OE6, the first reply showing in answer to
>>> THardy3@gmail.com is from you.
>>>
>>> I see no response from maxpro4u@nomail.afraid.org until his detail
>>> appears in the post from you.
>> Your news server may have had a hiccup, or OE is just being it's old flaky
>> self. Usenet doesn't always keep things in order... Shrug
>>
>>> Whilst here, can you suggest the best way to re-install Windows XP so
>>> as not to lose all data?
>> Sure can, but if you do a reinstall, you'll need to re-apply any
>> patches/security updates microsoft has released. I'd highly recommend you
>> get the machine behind a hardware based firewall for this.
>>
>> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI
>>
>> Heed the advice offered. And if you don't mind me asking, why do you want
>> to reinstall windows?
>>
max
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