re: Browser hijack
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:38 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by George Cowley
(143 messages posted)
Looks like it has been disabled. I kept hammering ctrl+F11 from the second the Dell
logo came up. No luck. I suspect from the fact the disk size is 37GB (from memory)
that the restore partition has been removed.
On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:33 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>+1 on what RiceR46 posted.
>
>Try some online scans like Norton's (but you'll have to do manual removal file-by-file)
>or like Housecall, which can do auto removal but is intolerably slow.
>
>In your shoes, with a low budget (no money equals no time to save anything from
th
>existing installation), I'd run the Dell PC Restore CTRL + F11 after the Dell startup
>logo, (it's pretty fast), set up Limited User accounts for each of the users, one
>Admin account for program installation, and password protect the available Admin
>account as well as the built-in Admin. I'd install AVG, Adobe Reader, Flash and
>Java. Finally I'd make sure the Windows Firewall was on (it should be by default
>if it has SP2), turn on Auto updates, I'd show the person how to do Windows updates
>and then have them do it for themselves. That would take about an hour on a faster
>connection.
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