antonOO2
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on the Pc,i have too much spyware,and Bt contacted me and sed that they had had an abuse complaint about emails fomr my IP.I ran an email scanner and there are lots of emails going out on my IP which i am not sending
So going to need to refomat ,any quick guide to it ,as want to get rid of everything .
Cheers
Anton
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Greg_M
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use the ghost disk you got with the PC
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Drew
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if ya aint got a big HD, just go out and buy a bigger harddrive and install windoes onto that, kill 2 birds with 1 marble 
if ya harddrive is ok, and ya on xp, put xp disc in, reboot, and format
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antonOO2
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cheers peeps
got a 80 gig so no need for new one
Gonna have to burn some back up discs first
anton
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ed
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Back up any files you need to keep as you will loose the lot.
Make sure any programs you have 'aquired' are on CD if you want them again.
Insert the Windows installation CD - if you run Widnows - and go throught the options to do a full re-installation.
If the computer freezes with a blank screen at this stage, which most Windows installation shave done for me, restart the PC and press F2 (I think) to access the BIOS menu, you need to scroll down to where it says something about the primary boot disk. This needs to be set to CD-ROM as the primary boot drive.
After about 15 mins of fucking about it should tell you that it's going to re-fprmat the hard disk - you want to do that and it might also re-partition the disk.
It will them re-install the lot and you will have a sparkly new PC 
Don't forget to re-start the PC and change the primary boot drive back to Hard drive
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Greg_M
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quote:
Originally posted by antonOO2
cheers peeps
got a 80 gig so no need for new one
Gonna have to burn some back up discs first
anton
be carefull what you save from the old HD because it could be music/movie or something you've downloaded causeing the problem, just run a spyware catcher, and scan yout HD for viruses
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ed
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Most virus scanners are shite though. Thats the problem...
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Greg_M
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quote:
Originally posted by 1800ed
Most virus scanners are shite though. Thats the problem...
true
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antonOO2
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Cheers
yes very true ,i have tried numerous scanners with no luck.
I am only saving some dreamweaver files to disc,the rest is going 
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antonOO2
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the scanner is picking up about 20 messages a minute leaving my IP
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ed
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I would advise you to get F-Secure virus scanner. It has got every virus I have come accross and my PC runs a lot smoother than wmeh I used Norton a few years ago as it's updates are doen a lot more smoothly...
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by antonOO2
the scanner is picking up about 20 messages a minute leaving my IP
Yes, you have one of those spammer viruses... It installs itself on your PC and then duplicates itself by sending e-mails to other people. Very clever I think, but a total nuisence 
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antonOO2
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ive got norton at the moment would be just as safe without it i think
ill have a look for F-secure
cheers
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antonOO2
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yeh its damn clever ,as i cant get rid of it 
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