[Land-speed] Windows Vista 64 Help Needed!

[Ellen Wilkinson]

Mayf
How important are the files on the affected hard drive? How much room is left
on the hard drive?
Easy expensive solution, take computer to computer repair shop, they will plug
it into their network or remove the hard drive hook it another computer run a
virus/malware scan remove problems, install antivirus software charge money
and your buddy is back in business.
If the files are not important not too expensive solution, replace hard drive,
use recovery disk to reinstall OS, drivers and software.  Recovery disk does
have OS right?
Gary
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  From: drmayf<mailto:drmayf at mayfco.com>
  To: LSR<mailto:land-speed at autox.team.net> ;
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  Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:31 PM
  Subject: [Land-speed] Windows Vista 64 Help Needed!


  Ok, so I have an associate here in Pahrump, who shall remain nameless to
  protect the guilty, who has a 3 year old Dell that has Vista 64 bit
  installed on it.  Unfortunately he never updated or bought the antivirus
  or even updated the OS during that time. And in the process it may have
  as many as 15 trojans and worms and other nasty little bastards.
  because now, it will not let any  *.exe run, nor *.com, not anything. It
  will not access the dvd drive, not will i tpopulate the control panel. I
  even tried to format it but it would not let that run either.   The
  software apopears like an aftermarket buy me web site and has all the
  good stuff like a normal web site. However, he even tried to pay to let
  it activate (that was a dumb sh*t move in my opinion) and that would not
  take either. Cannot download any updates from MicroSoft such as Defender
  or the malicious software removal tools.  My son just hit me with an
  idea though and that was to turn it off, then restart and go to the BIOS
  and tell it to start from a dvd. I don't have thet either but he does
  have a dell reinstallation disk for installed software so we could if
  needed and can actually do it, reformat the drive.  This is why I use
  Win XP Pro, lol....

  Any suggestions?   It  needs help!  Could the drive be removed and set
  up as a slave and then reformatted that way?


  help!!!!

  mayf
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