[OT] Re: Backing up files on a badly malware infested computer.

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
>>> That's a bad thing. The BIOS may have been infected. Did you check the
>>>
>>> boot order (CD player, HDD, USB, etc)?
>
>  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.

I suppose you are talking about a couple of files that get load during
boot. Either run msconfig and delete the corresponding entries
(assuming you are using Windows 7), or just rename them, reboot, and
delete them.


> 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! )

Curses are not a good thing.


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Ioannis Vranos

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