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Non-Tech : The Woodshed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TH who wrote (13911)	9/29/2004 4:45:40 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60928

TH, I don't know exactly what System Restore does, but I think that data files from that adware/spyware are still somewhere on your HDD. You may be able to find them by checking time stamps.

To: TH who wrote (13911)	9/29/2004 5:30:15 PM
From: jrhana	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 60928

For me the new SI has been a true Godsend. My system just flies. I have had zero problem with spyware etc. Just ran my scans to be sure. I use an array of Norton Anti-virus Norton Firewall Norton Internet Secturity Ad-aware Spy-Bot Spyware Guard Spyware Blaster BO-Clean everything is enabled for auto-protect; possibly the combination of (some of) the above programs being resident in memory with the old SI slowed me down some-Now man it is like greased lightning. I paid for the Norton security suite and the BO Clean (both well worth it IMO -considering how much money I make by using the SI threads etc.) The rest is freeware. Incidently I was unable to install the Windows SP2 update but I think I don't need it. Message 20458629 The auto restore function saved me after my system could not digest the SP2