BoaterDave

A fascinating insight into how matters may be construed by some, Richard! I
was pleased to hear that you have erradicated your malware without the need
for the procedures carried out by 'Banwar' on the SWI forum, cited as an
example by PA Bear.

I was impressed by Barkimmy (a fellow granddad!) taking the time and trouble
to try to help. Malke responded (I believe Malke is female) with an array of
'links' to other sites. I'd bet real money that Richard and/or Barkimmy
clicked on one or more of those links without giving it a second thought. I
once had a notion that, as this place has Microsoft in its name, someone
would be policing same. As far as I know, this is NOT so - no-one is
responsible for checking that links placed here take one to a 'safe' place.
A wonderful opportunity for 'the bad guys' to prey upon innocent folk, eh?

Here is the signature block of PA Bear, taken from AumHa.net:-

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
AumHa VSOP, Admin & Moderator; MS MVP-Internet Explorer, Mail, Consumer
Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
Steely-eyed Missile Man, Sensei, Mule Skinner & Smart Alex


Wlth so many folk visiting AumHa for assistance with Malware erradication, I
cannot help wondering why Robear cited a Spywareinfo site for his example,
rather than one from AumHa. Perhaps Robear will explain why we should trust
others when they tell us to download 'unknown' programmes onto our machines
without us having any idea what effect they might have.

Dave

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"Richard Henderson" <RichardHenderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:9933CFEF-CA4D-49F3-928B-94DCA4A21F7A@microsoft.com...
> Ah well ... just shows how wrong you can be! The original poster is still
> around and did read your posts - thank you.
> Largely now overtaken by events.
> I did eventually get rid of the rustock virus and repaired my installation
> from the original CD - just short of a reinstall.
> Updates now OK, and no crashes or BSOD for quite a while, but have opted
> out
> of IE7 updates. My broadband is provided by BTYahoo who have their own
> browser (an IE6 variant) which is incomptaible (at present) with IE7.
> Richard

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