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Need to reformat and reinstall
"Mike M" wrote in message ... Did you perform a clean install or was it a repair install? If the latter I wouldn't expect you to have to provide the Win Me CD but if the former it looks as if the XP upgrade setup took the existing XP installation as being the qualifying product which is good news all round. I'm confused too. Surely ladybug couldn't have "upgraded" to XP with a clean hard drive -- she must have had her old XP remnant on the drive. And if so, I wonder whether the malware could have somehow traveled along to the new upgraded XP. Possible? Note: if she performed a "repair" then it's entirely possible. Or am I out to lunch? Ladybug?????????? EW |
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Need to reformat and reinstall
Okay it's been a long week working on that darn machine every night after
work and being a non-techie, so by midnight last night when the reformat actually started, it gave me options to reformat 3 "partitions" . Two were very small and when I chose to reformat, I didn't document the message I got but those partitions did not reformat. I had been getting assistance in malwareremoval.com as well, so when all was finished today, I downloaded hijack this, obtained a log, and sent it for review. I did not get a response that there is anylonger any malware or "backdoor trojans" that had been the problem to start with, so my hope is that the machine is truly clean. If it fails, I'll replace it with a less expensive system as he uses it only for checking email and casual browsing. It is running very slowly and must have a conflict somewhere because the website he needs to use to check his work schedule requires java. I can access it easily on my machine, but that one hangs when the applet application tries to begin a session after login. Honestly I'm too old for this. :-) "LoneStar" wrote: "Mike M" wrote in message ... Did you perform a clean install or was it a repair install? If the latter I wouldn't expect you to have to provide the Win Me CD but if the former it looks as if the XP upgrade setup took the existing XP installation as being the qualifying product which is good news all round. I'm confused too. Surely ladybug couldn't have "upgraded" to XP with a clean hard drive -- she must have had her old XP remnant on the drive. And if so, I wonder whether the malware could have somehow traveled along to the new upgraded XP. Possible? Note: if she performed a "repair" then it's entirely possible. Or am I out to lunch? Ladybug?????????? EW |
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Need to reformat and reinstall
"ladybug" wrote in message ... Okay it's been a long week working on that darn machine every night after work and being a non-techie, so by midnight last night when the reformat actually started, it gave me options to reformat 3 "partitions" . Two were very small and when I chose to reformat, I didn't document the message I got but those partitions did not reformat. I had been getting assistance in malwareremoval.com as well, so when all was finished today, I downloaded hijack this, obtained a log, and sent it for review. I did not get a response that there is anylonger any malware or "backdoor trojans" that had been the problem to start with, so my hope is that the machine is truly clean. If it fails, I'll replace it with a less expensive system as he uses it only for checking email and casual browsing. It is running very slowly and must have a conflict somewhere because the website he needs to use to check his work schedule requires java. I can access it easily on my machine, but that one hangs when the applet application tries to begin a session after login. Honestly I'm too old for this. :-) Thanks for sharing the story! I hope it all works well for you. I wish I could help you on site -- I've done this many times. And for your info, Windows ME is a perfectly good system. I've got one Vista, two XP, and three ME systems and they all work well. Right now, I'm using (for no "real" reason) an ancient ME system and it can handle Java, Flash, Shockwave, the Internet, and anything else it needs. I use the Firefox browser for security. Of course, the XP systems can perform as well or better. Why am I telling you all this? Perhaps you don't need to "upgrade" to XP if you have ME on that computer. I could go on with this conversation, but I think you need some sleep!! Good luck. EW |
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Need to reformat and reinstall
Seriously. I could have just done the reformat and loaded ME. Wow. I guess
I was so driven to get the machine back to health that I didn't ponder that as an option. I may still have to go there because the machine is performing at about the rate of a snail. The only application installed is IE7 (IE6 was on it after the reinstall and I probably should have left that as well since he's a pretty minimal-use browser) so that's my only gauge of performance and it's not good. "LoneStar" wrote: "ladybug" wrote in message ... Okay it's been a long week working on that darn machine every night after work and being a non-techie, so by midnight last night when the reformat actually started, it gave me options to reformat 3 "partitions" . Two were very small and when I chose to reformat, I didn't document the message I got but those partitions did not reformat. I had been getting assistance in malwareremoval.com as well, so when all was finished today, I downloaded hijack this, obtained a log, and sent it for review. I did not get a response that there is anylonger any malware or "backdoor trojans" that had been the problem to start with, so my hope is that the machine is truly clean. If it fails, I'll replace it with a less expensive system as he uses it only for checking email and casual browsing. It is running very slowly and must have a conflict somewhere because the website he needs to use to check his work schedule requires java. I can access it easily on my machine, but that one hangs when the applet application tries to begin a session after login. Honestly I'm too old for this. :-) Thanks for sharing the story! I hope it all works well for you. I wish I could help you on site -- I've done this many times. And for your info, Windows ME is a perfectly good system. I've got one Vista, two XP, and three ME systems and they all work well. Right now, I'm using (for no "real" reason) an ancient ME system and it can handle Java, Flash, Shockwave, the Internet, and anything else it needs. I use the Firefox browser for security. Of course, the XP systems can perform as well or better. Why am I telling you all this? Perhaps you don't need to "upgrade" to XP if you have ME on that computer. I could go on with this conversation, but I think you need some sleep!! Good luck. EW |
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purchased for
this machine's predecessor but without a floppy drive and/or boot disc, I am a bit lost - I need to reformat and reinstall due to backdoor trojan but can't find the XP discs & key code came with the machine when purchased new in Dec 05. |
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