Kill it with fire.
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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
-sc
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From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:15 PM
To: NT
...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 7:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Wierd logoff / restart issue
On Sat May 15 2010, you wrote:
Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
I understand that, but I don't have the reinstall media. :-(
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Thanks,
John
Inspiron? What model?
On May 15, 2010 10:36 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
wrote:
On Sat May 15 2010, you wrote:
Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
I understand that, but I don't have the reinstall media. :-(
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Thanks,
John Aldrich
Blueridge Industries
IT
On Sun May 16 2010, you wrote:
Just the NIC driver should be enough.
True... and maybe the HDD controller driver. :-) But all *appears* to be
better now that I've cleaned the laptop. I also disabled the quick-launch
for ACT! in the startup. I still think ACT! must be partly to blame for
On 16 May 2010 at 9:23, John Aldrich wrote:
True... and maybe the HDD controller driver. :-) But all *appears* to be
better now that I've cleaned the laptop. I also disabled the quick-launch
for ACT! in the startup. I still think ACT! must be partly to blame for
this, so if anyone's got an
On Sun May 16 2010, you wrote:
WinPatrol has a Startup Delay function that allows you to load
everything in a specific order at login time. That might help here if
in fact the ACT! quickload is to blame.
Thanks. I might look at that. I used SpyBot's start up editor to disable
that speed
Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Wierd logoff / restart issue
Got a laptop running XP Pro. It's had some malware on
On Fri May 14 2010, you wrote:
What brand is it?
Dell Inspiron.
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Thanks,
John Aldrich
Blueridge Industries
IT Manager
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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On Sat May 15 2010, you wrote:
Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
I understand that, but I don't have the reinstall media. :-(
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Thanks,
John Aldrich
Blueridge Industries
IT Manager
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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One thing I neglected to mention -- the laptop has ACT! on it and it's
always acted strange since we installed it. By that I mean, it goes into
low-color graphics mode as soon as you start ACT! and Outlook never wants
to shut down if ACT has been running.
Is this an Act! issue or is this more
Have you checked for system restore points that pre-date the malware
infection?
Also, any XP Pro OEM install disk from another Dell will work just fine to
restore this machine, although catching up all the drivers will be a little
hassle after that.
Carl
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From: John
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From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Wierd logoff / restart issue
Have you checked for system restore points that pre-date the malware
infection?
Also, any XP Pro OEM install disk from another Dell
On Sat May 15 2010, you wrote:
[snip]
And who knows about Act? It's kind of a mess these days. (OK, I
haven't had to support it in over 4 years, so I don't really have
current information about it.)
Any suggestions for another product that does the same sort of thing that
is better
On 15 May 2010 at 10:35, John Aldrich wrote:
Dell Inspiron.
Have you checked the Dell website to see if you can order replacement restore
media?
Alternately you should be able to download all the drivers from the Dell
support site and then install from generic OEM media. I've rebuilt Dell
Just the NIC driver should be enough.
Andrew
On 16 May 2010 13:54, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote:
On 15 May 2010 at 10:35, John Aldrich wrote:
Dell Inspiron.
Have you checked the Dell website to see if you can order replacement
restore
media?
Alternately you should be
What brand is it?
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
wrote:
Got a laptop running XP Pro. It's had some malware on it that has been
particularlly difficult to find. The only way I found it was to reboot into
safe mode, command-prompt only and run a
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