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April 10th, 2006 18:00

Infected Computer

My computer is telling me it is infected with the Trojan something or other virus.  I bought this pc from an individual and do not have the intial disks to re-image the pc.  Any advice as to how to get another set of discs so this can be done.  Would send me out a set of them for free?  Don't know a great deal about this so if question is dumb I apologize.  Thanks for any advice.

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April 10th, 2006 18:00

If you can find drivers for your system

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?~ck=mn

you can re-install system. OS disc should be easy to get.

April 10th, 2006 18:00

Where would I get the OS disk?  Sorry I really don't know.

152 Posts

April 10th, 2006 18:00

borrow it from your friend, or from your company, you only need OS media, you have your own key.

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April 10th, 2006 20:00

Don't you just want to get rid of the virus?  You don't have to reformat the whole system to do that. Plenty of free AV and antispyware products listed below. If you need further help post it over on the Virus/Spyware forum.

Lavasoft Ad-Aware Personal

Spybot - Search & Destroy

Windows Defender

Avast! Home Edition

AVG Antivirus

Trend Micro Housecall

ZoneAlarm Basic

 

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