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| John_Vella wrote: The safest, quickest and easiest option would be to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows. | |
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I know. He seems quite keen on the idea of this “war”, and says that there are a lot of updates coming through from Microsoft almost every day. He gives me the impression that it’s not just him, but other people he knows having the same problems. He says that the internet is slower than normal.
Anyway, he seems to be running a full scan of his system, and I’ve told him to uninstall all tool bars. He did say that a few have turned up from Bing and Yahoo - but he says that they don’t seem quite right so are probably fakes. They also seem to appear at random (he tells me).
Yes - I agree - a full wipe and reinstall is likely to be in order. This is the machine he works on, and I hope he has backups that are untainted. He’s not the easiest of people to convince that he’s not right about stuff like this though. The fact that he and his friends all seem to be having similar problems is going to reinforce his image of what is gong on, and that Mac user (he really, really does not like Macs) in Essex is not up to speed on such matters.
