[pchelpers] Re: [pchelpers]

Man, I hate to hear that!!  Thanks for being frank tho, John.
So...those two programs are just futile?  Clean Cashe and Spy Sweeper?
 Sara

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From: "John Durham" <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: [pchelpers]


> You have a horrible problem there. If these are present, there is only
> one option. Finding them may be impossible, so the drive must be
> formatted. There is only one way to be certain of removing them, and
> that is by removing everything.
>
> Before you do, try backing up your documents and personal data to CD.
> After re-formatting, you will need to re-install everything (underline
> that). There is a small risk one of these things could get on the
> backup, but it is most likely to hide in the windows system areas or
> related places. If you are concerned, then only copy back such files as
> you need to work with. It is tough advice, I know, but rootkits are
> tough customers.
> Barry & Sara L wrote:
>
>>I mentioned to a brother at the meeting yesterday that I have been having 
>>a
>>hard time with shutting down my computer.  He stopped by and ran a program
>>on my computer that detected I had two "root kits" (??)  on it.  He found
>>them, but then didn't really tell me how to delete them.  He gave me two
>>other programs to run.....Clean Cashe 3.0, and SpySweeper. (He said they
>>were the best!)  I ran Clean Cashe.....but cannot get SpySweeper to work.
>>He said the 'Root kit' isn't allowing it to run.  So...what is going on? 
>>Is
>>it imparitive that I get rid of these 'root kits' in order for my computer
>>to work right?  He tried to find them going thru C: drive but said they 
>>were
>>'invisible'....and then didn't really explain how to get rid of them.  I'm 
>>a
>>bit confused....
>>Any insight would be great....
>>  Thanks,
>>   Sara
>>
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