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Re: System is bogged down after adware / spyware cleanup Conor 02-24-08
Posted by Conor on February 24, 2008, 6:58 am
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> At this point I am strongly considering backing up my critical data,
> formatting the drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. Please help
> me avoid this if I can. I got a lot of stuff that would need to be
> reinstalled.
>
TBH, malware hooks itself into so many things nowadays that it's nigh
on impossible to remove it without breaking something.

Instead of wiping and re-installing, you can do a repair installation
which should sort things out and save re-installing everything.

BTW, I don't think I need to tell you how crap Norton is do I?


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Conor

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