Re: Daughter's computer

["David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:58:22 +0200, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > point her to the various adware and spybot cleaners available - which
> > are also free.
> In my experince of a driveby, cleaners didn't and I had to reinstall. And
> Microsoft says the same. I rather like the idea of following the  
> Microsoft
> recommendation and reinstall Windows, even though in this case, it means
> I'll be installing Linux (if I can talk her into it).

I'll agree with Dr Solly here - I once spent a painful 4 hours with a  
selection of cleaners trying to clean a friend's PC after she had download  
several screensavers. The cleaners were crap, the most use they did was to  
identify what was on there so that I could clean it out manually.

I still shudder every time I go into IE's section of the registry.

It would have been quicker for me to have re-installed Windows from  
scratch.

As others have said, one of the more friendly distros (Ubuntu etc.) of  
Linux may be better - if she just surfs and does normal office stuff on  
the computer. (The reason I'm writing this on Windows is that this is  
actually my games machine and I haven't got 'round to reinstalling Linux  
on my work machine).

Number 1 thing: kill IE, kill it hard, with prejudice. :-)

dave
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