Can someone recommend a free anti-virus program that I can download to disc on my XP/pro
cable modem to use on a friends Win/2000 dial-up 18gb work cast-off computer.
She uses it for e-mail, pictures and instant messaging. She also surfs the web.
She has AOL which offered it's own AV- firewall suite that I thought she had been using for
the last year. Wrong. I had put on Adaware and Spybot S&D last spring but she never used it.
By the way her only complaint has been some pop-ups and the inability to get her new digi-cam
to be recognized by her computer.
So I reloaded Adaware and Sb-S&D last week and the scans on both found a lot of stuff but
Adaware SE found a lot but couldn't get rid of what it found. (Sorry about THAT sentence)
Anyway I'm thinking virus. I also loaded CWShredder which came up clean.
I'm also thinking I may have to upload this to her computer in SAFE mode just to be err....safe.
I need to know how to do this in a step-by-step manner. Starting with how DO you get into
SAFE mode with Win/2000, she has password activated on her startup.
Okay lets get this out of the way, I KNOW I should (pick one) reformat, switch to Win/XP,
buy her a new cheap box, switch to another op/system, whatever! It ain't happening now!
Lets just see if I can deal with what we've got. After all, the damn computer still works
enough for her to use everyday, the pop-ups are under control and I only started F*ing with
this box because she can't get her camera to download to it.
(BTW it's a Canon and I did reload the disc that came with it, didn't help)
Mini-rant: you know what I don't understand, I know that I know damn little about
trouble-shooting computers yet her best female friends husband does this for a living and he
wanted to charge her for it. All I'm getting out of it is dinner. Thank for the help!
Lloyd