I spent the day at a friend's house fixing his computer and had a very frustrating afternoon. The anti-spyware and anti-virus were both out of date, the internet wasn't working and the computer would shut down automatically if you tried to get online. I tried one thing after another to get things to work, and at one stage did get the computer online. I installed the latest Spyware Doctor and AVG and the doc managed to find over 260 problems, but couldn't get rid of 5 of them, they kept coming back. AVG tried to clean a few viruses (trojans) and the computer kept shutting down, after a small tmp file was added to the C drive, making the damn thing come back after every re-boot.
I had a headache that just got worse as the afternoon went on, and left there with a windows repair going on, I'll have to go back tomorrow and see how that went. I wrote down a couple of the registry entries that the doctor couldn't delete and got no hits on Google, which is unusual, because generally you find the same problems with someone else.
I should have written down the names of the trojans and would have had better luck finding out how to delete them, and if I have no luck tomorrow that's what I'll have to do. I don't enjoy working all week just to have my weekends taken up with rotten little trojans that can't be removed!
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