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I am Tosk

In article ,
says...

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:38:40 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:43 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:44:31 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...

...is it worth $29.95? Anyone use it? Supposedly it's good for
amateurs like me.

I would never use it. When I get clogged up I do a format and rebuild.
Over the years I have probably averaged twice a year.

As infinitely painful as it is.... this is the best advice.

I've never had to do a reformat just to unclog a computer. Maybe I've
just been lucky.

There is one ugly Trojan/worm/virus out there that will probably have
you reloading the system.
I got it opening an active x page on a web site about caster scooters.
McAfee was popping up warnings faster than the engine could handle
them, I suppose and something got through. I tried a half dozen
different scanners and removers for the various messages I was getting
but nothing stopped the root failure. This thing was grabbing anything
that made a call to change the registry or any other system
maintenance task and popping up a gray box message that was, itself
bogus. It wouldn't even run regedit in command line, safe mode. You
couldn't get to anything close to system restore. The desktop was
hijacked and said "your system is corrupted".
Real ugly stuff. I think they also sent a payload of other crap along
with the original virus.Every scanner I ran, found and said it removed
something but still no joy.
I finally just low leveled, repartitioned and reformatted the C:
drive.

Man, it's been a long time since I got something like that... Knock on
wood....