Maybe I spoke too soon. I tried Norton first but my licensed expired. AVG which I normally love wa overwhelmed. The virus is Win32.Parite which is a SOB. AVG would fix infected files and the 1500 + copies overwhelmed it. I rarely used this machine or surfed.
Hit it with Avast. It seemed to work. My desktop icons returned. Just to be sure I had bought PC Tools Spyware Doctor & Antivirus. 3 PC license and bought it cause it supported Win 2000.
I ran PC Tools and it found 259 copies of Win32.Parite and a couple others that Avast must have missed. I had done nothing on the machine after Avast. The question is if Win32.Parite is really gone. it seems to regenerate or hide????? If PC Tools failed then I may break down and spend a fortune on kaperinsky.
I lost my Internet - I plug into the switch and nothing. Befoire I could plug into any connect hotel DSL, office small hubs and got the net. Ii will check the wireless. It is a Dell. Cannot figure out why internet is not working.
Maybe the AVG and Avast have firewalls. I will uninstall both. Tried to uninstall Norton crap and it would not remove itself. I hate Symantec especailly after the CEO came out for Obama.
I can download data on a program I have so the internet connection works but the browser will not open. I did not download Firefox as a backup.
I have my Dell disks but i do not want to reformat. Trying to figure how to get Firefox on when I cannot get on the net?? Any ideas? Thanks for any help.
Could I download from another machine to a ROM and install Firefox from a ROM?