CPU virus question

Superbad · 01-31-2011, 08:32 PM

probably not. My advice here is to offload any files you need from her account to an external Hard drive. Delete her account. Install AVG free or another anti virus. Defrag your hard drive. Then set up a new account, connect the external hard drive, scan it, clean it, then delete that account. Defrag again, setup a new account for her and tell her to never randomly click on stuff again. For web browsing, I would setup a separate account with no admin privileges and let her use that for web surfing. Delete it occasionally and make a new account.
I am a computer engineer whose wife constantly infected her machine via myspace, facebook, etc...

It sounds like overkill, but it is the best way, I have found to deal with Windows viruses. Or buy a Mac and install anti virus from the get go.

01-31-2011, 08:32 PM	#9
Superbad Have My Own Room Join Date: Apr 2010 First Name: Bobby Location: Panama City, FL Posts: 1,784 Trading: (53)	Re: CPU virus question probably not. My advice here is to offload any files you need from her account to an external Hard drive. Delete her account. Install AVG free or another anti virus. Defrag your hard drive. Then set up a new account, connect the external hard drive, scan it, clean it, then delete that account. Defrag again, setup a new account for her and tell her to never randomly click on stuff again. For web browsing, I would setup a separate account with no admin privileges and let her use that for web surfing. Delete it occasionally and make a new account. I am a computer engineer whose wife constantly infected her machine via myspace, facebook, etc... It sounds like overkill, but it is the best way, I have found to deal with Windows viruses. Or buy a Mac and install anti virus from the get go. __________________ Some say he can whistle dixie whilst drinking a chocolate milkshake and that moss can grow on all sides of him at the same time.. all I know is that he's called: The SuperBad! - Ninjavanish