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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Unless he plays online games. 
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. |
The only online games he plays are web games, which don't seem to have a problem with the anti-viral sw. He prefers single-player games unless he's going to play with someone he knows, and the other person he likes to play with doesn't have broadband at home. (Yes, there are people who still don't!)
I know about Norton Ghost, and if it comes up again, I may have to do this. Certainly it would be easier in terms of installing drivers-- I couldn't remember which video card I'd bought for him, and the box was lost or packed away in our move two years ago, so I actually had to pull the card out to get the SN and search online to see what drivers I needed.