Nestor, I would have to humbly disagree on that account. I think there are many (obviously not all) situations where even a heavily virus/spyware/malware infected PC can be cleaned thoroughly and reasonably quickly (1-2 hours) by launching off of a live (bart PE, etc) CD and cleaning out hostile files and then cleaning up remnants (files, registry, startup tasks, etc) in safe-mode. Defragging and all that is helpful, although autorun on many PCs now. Also not someone a good/honest technician should be charging to sit and watch run. ~Kiernan Head Technician - Green Earth Computers www.greenearthcomputers.us Kiernan at gmail.com 413-282-TECH Membership Coordinator - Worlds Apart Games www.worldsapartgames.org On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:03 AM, nestor at fuzzy-math.com < nestor at fuzzy-math.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Any good, well: honest, Pc tech will tell you to start over. The best you > can do with a swamped PC that has out of date antivirus or none at all is > backup as much data as possible and reinstall windows. The other option is > to "contain" or remove all the bad stuff you can find, defrag, and clean the > registry (which never seems to net great results). That would take a while, > and I know I'd charge you a bundle. > > On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Hope Nilsson wrote: > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hi HT folks, > > I've got a laptop that needs some attention. It's been slow for ages but > now it's clearly got some nasty malware on it and is refusing to boot up. > It's not my primary machine, or I'd have put more effort into fixing it. Can > anyone recommend a good PC technician in the North Adams area (or within an > hour or so's drive)? I'd like someone to clean the machine out, make sure > nothing nasty is lurking around, and get it back to a reasonable state of > functioning. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Hope > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20091207/1a34bde7/attachment.html