[softwarelist] Re: Another Windows horror story

In message <4f554e6abadfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
Before you Wiped and Reinstalled, were you able to identify the offending
item, if so, quite often a search of the MS site (Or Google) will bring up
a number of manual solutions, like the name of the file(s) to be deleted,
and the fix required in the registry to complete the dumping process.
Yes I found what the thing was, but I didn't find a solution on Google. Later I found a news story which pointed to that version only appearing last week.
I did have a go at manually removing it but I didn't have much luck, it seemed to have locked all the things one wanted to delete, and even deleting files using another copy of XP just led to them being recreated. I said the anti virus software repeatedly claimed to have fixed things, but had failed.
I was happier starting from scratch, even if I'd been able to remove the virus I would have done so. 

I don't have much experience of these things, hence the story.


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