[softwarelist] Re: Another Windows horror story

In message of 22 Dec, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Have you any idea how it got onto your machine?  Is there a learning
point there for the rest of us?

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@xxxxxxxxx
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