Odd freezing problem on a friends pc
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Well my friend, there's more things to worry about besides viruses these days..
new malware called ROOTkits
these have many deadly forms that can be worse than viruses including blue screens, login password changes, or hdd shutdowns.
a very nice free scanner for these can be had at www.lavasoft.com, and its called Ad Aware SE personal.
u should also goto www.webroot.com and get their spysweeper.
U should also join the technical forum at www.minasi.com where an advanced group of techs are constantly helping ppl.
If u have ad ware or adware personal se , this is a hacker program that mines for data, notice the spelling.
If ur friend doesn't run a highly configured firewall, then u wouldnt believe how much trash gets fed into his pc without his permission or knowledge about it.
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ok here's more helpful advice:
i had the problem ur friend had a few months ago too
Assuming u have xp pro and the orig cd, what i did was run the xp pro cd and do a new install which turned out to be a reinstall.
What xp did was save all my files without deleting them then i created another XP directory called WINTWO ( u can name it anything u want, keep it short)
the advantage of this is u wont have to re partition or re format and therefore wont lose data.
but the small downside is u need to be sure u have hdd space.
when its all done u can refer back to ur old win directory to get ur old files, but u may have to re install all ur driver files, chipset, aud vid snd usb etc
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