i forgot to mention that you should then have yourself cleansed, which will require a trip to india.
At 07:10 PM 1/30/2009, you wrote: >A friend has an older Dell laptop with Windows XP that won't connect >wirelessly to internet. Maybe other problems, don't know. He knows nothing >at all about computers, so he asked me for advice since I know next to >nothing. He believes his problem is caused by viruses since he sees a message >that his laptop has 178 viruses. Don't know where the message comes from, >maybe an expired virus program from Dell or maybe a virus program that he paid >to download from the web. He doesn't know what he downloaded, if anything, >and he threw away all the CDs that came from Dell, including OS, since he >didn't know what they were for. > >I told him to go to a local computer builder (not chain repair place) who >might have an old Win XP OS on hand, tell them that he will pay to have the >disk wiped and the OS reinstalled (ask price first), and say that if the >computer won't work afterwards he will make no demand that the computer be >fixed for that initial price. The computer is old enough that a high price to >fix isn't wise, and he has no data that needs to be saved. > >Should I have told him something else? > >(I could try to fix for him but I am not that dumb.) > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
