Hello Everyone,

I hope you can give me some advice (in hindsight I wish I would have thought of this forum first). I have my brother's Dimension E510 ,Intel Pentium 4 Processor 630 with HT Technology (3.0 GHz) sitting on my dining room table, my laptop is there also. The Dimension E510 was really messed up with Antivirus 2008 from his ex downloading games and who knows what. I cleaned out all 50+ games.

 

I had him buy Trend Micro and Spy Sweeper and I loaded them unto the PC. I ran the programs and found various infections too many to list. Anyway I thought after a day working on the PC I solved the problem. After being on the internet the blasted stuff starting taking over the PC and shooting different sites on internet page again, some of which I did not want to see. I did more cleaning and Zlob.Trojan was detected. Well to make a long story short I am exhausted with this I must not be doing the right combination of things to rid the system of the parasites. I also wonder if I am elimanating things that should not be. Everytime I think I have it cleaned up. It seems to come back. This happens when I get on the internet to test it out.

 

I am thinking about just reinstalling everything and starting out with a clean machine. Another problem is he can not find his orginial disks, so I requested new ones from Dell this morning. What do you people think I should do or try at this point?

 

Thank you, Roxy

 

His Dell has this as an orginal configuration:

 

1 221-9861 Dimension E510 ,Intel Pentium 4 Processor 630 with HT Technology (3.0 GHz)

1 311-5499 512MB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz

1 310-5324 Dell USB Keyboard

1 320-4603 17 in (17 in viewable) E176FP Flat Panel Display

1 320-4309 128MB ATI Hyper Memory PCI-Express X16 (DVI/VGA/TV out) Radeon X300 SE

1 341-3292 160GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM)

1 341-2724 3.5in Floppy Drive

1 412-0688 Image Restore

1 412-0721 Dimension Dell Support

1 420-4927 Windows Media Player 10

1 420-5646 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, English without Media, for Dimension

1 463-2282 Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access

1 420-5460 Complimentary courses: Look for EU icon

1 420-5476 Dell Direct Download

1 420-5924 Icon Consolidation Application

1 310-6264 Dell USB 2-button mouse 1 430-0412 Integrated NIC card 1 313-3840 56K PCI Data Fax Modem 1 412-0705 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0

1 313-4129 16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW

1 420-5781 Sonic Cineplayer 1 420-5790 Roxio Creator Basic/MyDVD Basic

1 313-2758 Integrated Audio

1 313-2198 No Speaker Requested

1 412-0850 Network Associates McAfee 7.0,English,90-day Trial

1 412-0687 NETZERO ISP 1 420-3224 Broadband Icon for Inspiron 1 412-0787 AOL for Broadband

1 420-5256 Netscape ISP 1 412-0449 Microsoft Office 2003 Basic Edition,Dimension,DHS

1 412-0856 Paint Shop Pro Standard

1 412-0865 Basic digital Music,Photo and Game experience