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re: Browser hijack
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm
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Posted by Johnb33 (1602 messages posted)


Its funny, I just got done working on a Dimension 2400 as well that was so screwed 
up.  The best thing you can do is post a hijackthis log at a spyware forum and they 
can help you out by running different programs to download to clean the infections 
that are still on the computer.  There are many to choose from, but only register 
and post on one site.






On Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:01 pm, George Cowley wrote:
>Yes. I suspect that's what the system needs. To be honest, if I was charging the
>lady, I'd tell her it was cheaper just to get a new computer. It's a Dell 2400 with
>a CD/DVD ROM, 128mb DDR and 40GB HDD. It's very basic. Her children appear to have
>been using it to access porn judging by the registry entries.
>
>If I can fix it without a reinstallation that'd probably be best. I don't think the
>lady has a ton of money. I'm not too sure whether Dell's reinstallation partition
>works anyway.
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Written in response to:
re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:01 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:49 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 2:51 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (Ricer46: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 2:59 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 3:01 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (Johnb33: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 6:14 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 9:49 am)
*re: Browser hijack (Johnb33: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 10:46 am)
-re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 9:33 am)
-re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 10:38 am)
-re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 2:45 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 6:56 am)
-re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 7:29 am)
-re: Browser hijack (Ari: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 9:06 am)
-re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 5:23 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (Ari: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 6:12 pm)
*re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 3:21 pm)
*re: Browser hijack (Ari: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 6:56 pm)
-re: Browser hijack (Kevinh: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 8:01 am)
*re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 8:36 am)
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