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Re: Computer got hijacked last night
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Posted by Mark - IN. on May 07, 2006 at 20:31:38 from (152.163.100.74):
In Reply to: Re: Computer got hijacked last night posted by old on May 07, 2006 at 18:16:32:
Some time back, year or so ago, that happened to my mother's PC. Did Control/Alt/Del and brought up task manager, identified a program tying up her processor that I didn't recognize, "ended task" (shut it down), then did a file search for that program and deleted it. As I recall, was kind've tough to delete because was an executable file, but stayed with it a couple of hours and got it. I'm thinking that I had to go in through the DOS/Command prompt to delete it - I don't recall now. Was Ok after that. She has McAfee spy-zapper through AOL now and luckily hasn't had a problem, knock on wood. One screwup I caused on mine once is that had and subscribed to Norton Anti-virus. Found a copy of the newest latest greatest McAfee and loaded it. Holy cow, the two of them fought it out and locked up the processor tighter than a drum. Everytime tried to reboot, as soon as XP started to load, crash and burned the second XP tried to load. It took a couple of hours before I realized if I'd boot up in safe mode, that I'd be able to out McAfee and did. Will never make that mistake again. Mark
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