Gerry, that is a great idea, I completely forgot about system restore. Definitely worth a try. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Gerry Archer <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote: >Everyone has their favorite protective programs. Here's mine: > >Crapcleaner: Run it daily. Solves many problems >Zonealarm: Firewall catches most viruses and malware >Avg Free Antivirus: Catches viruses/malware that get past Zonealarm >Malwarebytes: Run it occasionally > >Tried Security Essentials and it let viruses through on several >occasions. >Microsoft occasionally turns it on when they download security patches >and I >turn it off when I happen to catch it although it seems compatible with >above programs. > >Results? I never have virus/malware problems. > >Computer repair guy told me to always try the simplest fixes first. On >Windows, the simplest fix is to go back to a previous date before the >problem started. > >Gerry > >From: "Max Dillon" <meadedil...@bellsouth.net> >> Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. >> So now that Spybot S&D has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned >it, no >> change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using >Firefox. >> May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am >going >> to give Malwarebytes a chance first. >> -Max >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of >Curt >> Raymond >> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:26 PM >> To: Diesel List >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? >> >> You didn't say what OS. >> >> I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which seems to work >pretty >> well. Boot into safemode, update and run. Same advice with >Malwarebytes. >> >> For extra stuff look for temp directories in the Windows directory. >> >> -Curt >> >> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:36:58 -0500 >> From: Max Dillon <meadedil...@bellsouth.net> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? >> Message-ID: <3c0f9f4d-fe65-4faa-9141-af27ab541...@email.android.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV >> tools >> do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload >the >> OS. >> >> Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 >> available. >> Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance >> didn't >> seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. >> >> Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about >60 GB >> on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows >system. >> >> Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a >bunch >> of >> software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also >defrag. >> >> Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal >behavior. >> >> This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! >> -- >> Max Dillon >> Charleston SC >> '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives >> http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5613 - Release Date: >02/18/13 >> > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
