Backing up files on a badly malware infested computer.

[Bill Stanley]

 >> That's a bad thing. The BIOS may have been infected. Did you check the
>> boot order (CD player, HDD, USB, etc)?

An expert of removing viruses said that BIOS viruses are rare.  As such, 
I am assuming that there isn't one.  I did succeed in putting a new 
operating system in.  While I was at it, I put in an unused HD that I 
had and that HD became the master drive (C:) with her old drive becoming 
F:.  When I tried deleting the old installation except for the data 
directories I was not able to delete those two files for Adobe Reader. 
No matter how hard I try, they are still there.  Read about the details 
in a previous posting.  It would be nice to get rid of these files 
because they are preventing me from doing an efficient defrag of the 
disk.  ( CURSE YOU ADOBE! )

> That should definitely be of concern.  As well, depending on your area,
> you may have a freegeek.org near you.  In my case, IDE drives are like
> ten cents per gig, or something equally silly.
>

If you read my previous post, there was also a hardware problem. 
Specifically, the CD_ROM drive sometimes failed.  When I tested it, it 
looked good.  Only after using it a bit, (trying to use it to install an 
OS) did the problem become apparent.  When it got hot from use, it failed.

Bill Stanley