Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Christopher Fisk wrote: Third: Getting rid of the Antivirus 2008 isn't fun. You'll need to scan with multiple things. I've had good luck with putting the drive into a machine and scanning with Avast, then AVG, then trendmicro's housecall, then Malwarebytes Antimalware, th

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Joe User wrote: Hello, Have a guy that brought in his Wal-Mart sold HP/Crapaq laptop. He tells me he was surfing pr0n and got a message that his system was infected and he just shut down his system and called me. I asked him if this was possibly a pop up ad and he do

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-12 Thread Joe User
Hello FORC5, Monday, August 11, 2008, 1:09:08 PM, you wrote: > those pop ups are usually scare tactics to get you to click on > something and install their spyware. > did you look at it in his machine ? If drive is wiped restore disks > are available from HP for usually less the $50 Yeah and it

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-12 Thread Joe User
Hello Beave, Monday, August 11, 2008, 10:25:32 AM, you wrote: > First did you look at the drive with a disk editor like Winhex? If not give > it a look. > Inspect sector 0. Use the MBR template in the Template manager to > view available partitions, if there is any. If there are partitions >

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-11 Thread FORC5
those pop ups are usually scare tactics to get you to click on something and install their spyware. did you look at it in his machine ? If drive is wiped restore disks are available from HP for usually less the $50 fp At 09:14 AM 8/11/2008, Joe User Poked the stick with: >Hello, > >Hav

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-11 Thread Beave
recovery discs or partitions Hello, Have a guy that brought in his Wal-Mart sold HP/Crapaq laptop. He tells me he was surfing pr0n and got a message that his system was infected and he just shut down his system and called me. I asked him if this was possibly a pop up ad and he doesn't

[H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-11 Thread Joe User
Hello, Have a guy that brought in his Wal-Mart sold HP/Crapaq laptop. He tells me he was surfing pr0n and got a message that his system was infected and he just shut down his system and called me. I asked him if this was possibly a pop up ad and he doesn't think it was. However, he doesn't