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Originally Posted by nekokami
My sympathies! I spent the weekend reinstalling Windows on my husband's machine... he'd managed to pick up spyware that was causing Windows to sprout these constant error messages, AND was blocking accessing Grisoft, Symantec, etc. from that computer. I looked at this for a while, thought things over, and finally asked him if he had anything critical on that machine (besides some artwork, which I'd already burned to cd). He said no (he uses that machine to play games, browse web comics, and read email, which he doesn't save), so hey presto, now he has a nice clean machine. With antivirus/malware software installed and updated. (It was interfering with some of his games and had gotten turned off. I explained that from now on if he chooses to turn off the antiviral SW, he needs to unplug the system from the internet first, and only plug it back in AFTER he turns the antiviral SW back on.)
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Unless he plays online games.
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Hey, not like I had anything better to do this weekend than reinstall someone else's PC, right? 
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You might want to look into something like Norton Ghost: create a known good clean system and make an image. When this happens again, wipe the machine and restore the image. It's still time consuming, but not as much as doing a piece by piece re-install of the OS and all applications.
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Dennis