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From: Colin Wilson on 6 May 2008 17:54
> Now I am wondering if my dad may have inadvertently installed any
> spyware, before he called me over.

Nothing lost doing a few scans to put your mind at ease... got an
antivirus / firewall installed ?

I've got a list of several anti-malware apps over at my site
http://www.coreutilities.co.uk - most of the info is on the second
link down from the main page.

If you already have an AV scanner you can disable, it might also be
worth throwing Sysclean by Trend Micro at it as a once-over - it uses
the latest virus signatures of their full product, but in a one-shot
get-me-out-of-trouble method of use (linked as above)
From: journey on 6 May 2008 23:15
On Tue, 6 May 2008 12:02:04 -0700 (PDT), "void.no.spam.com(a)gmail.com"
<void.no.spam.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>My dad was browsing the other day, and called me over to the
>computer. Firefox had somehow gone over to onlinexpscanner.com (which
>I have discovered is a spyware site) and downloaded an executable
>file, and there were prompts to run some code. I closed all the
>browser windows and deleted the executable file.
>
>Now I am wondering if my dad may have inadvertently installed any
>spyware, before he called me over. I could spend several hours
>running a bunch of scans, or maybe I can just reinstall Vista and the
>Dell Drivers CD? How long would all that take? There are even old
>posts in this newsgroup where people said their computer runs faster
>after doing a reinstall of Windows, than it did when Dell shipped it
>to them.

It takes me about 1 1/2 - 2 hours to do a complete system refresh.
Dell makes it easy. That's assuming that there isn't a lot of work
first copying files off of the computer. Doing the actual refresh is
fairly quick.

Also, be aware that if you haven't already reformatted the drive in
the past there is usually a restore partition you can use.

If I were to have to go through the work of reinstalling though, I'd
probably upgrade to XP over Vista, if you have the OS disk to do that.
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