re: Browser hijack
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 6:56 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by George Cowley
(143 messages posted)
Interesting... On the 2400 I'm working on, there is a second disk partition (I looked
at it with Slax). It only seems to contain maintainance utilities accessed via F12,
option 5. There appears to be no installation partition. Just two partitions on the
disk. The maintainance is MSDOS and the other is NTFS.
I've asked the lady concerned for her original O/S disk. I bet she never ever had
one. This is the first time the system has ever undergone any work and the two people
who used it don't use it for anything other than photos and myspace. They know little
of the technicalities of computers - it's just a box that works (or doesn't).
Slax worked just fine on the system using a run-from-CD version with KDE.
As I said, I asked her for the OS CD and for extra RAM for it. That way I can get
it going well. Of course, if she hasn't got the CD it could well be worth her while
to dump that system - take it down to a charity and get the tax deduction then to
buy a new computer, given that new systems are $300 and the OS disk is about $150.
Meanwhile I found two difficult to remove files - MDIOO.SYS and core.cache.dsk -
neither of which look as though they belong. Haven't managed to shift them yet -
the computer will not enter safe mode - it keeps hanging on the driver list screen.
On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>Might have been shipped before the started using Dell PC Restore, which was 7/14/04
>for USA shipments of consumer Dimension models.
>
>If you see the blue bar at the top of the screen with www.dell.com after the logo
>but before windows, it has the necessary programming to alter startup to access
the
>restore partition. Whether or not someone nuked the contents of the partition is
>another matter.
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- re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm)
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