What should we remove from our old computer from the Hijackthis log?

[Okedokey]

Let me rephrase the above post a bit. John does amazing work here in computer security. Don't get me wrong. John's probably the only one around here that can fix it. But seriously, the methodology (on average) takes more than 4 days.

My approach is different i guess, i would've just given detailed description and method of backup and reinstall, done the first time it may be just as slow, but the results are far better.

An old XP or any windows for that matter, benefits massively from a reinstall and virtually ensures no malware 100%.

Also what's the reference to rewardsarchive.com?

 

[Methos' Morals]

Ok, your system should be pretty well clean by now. How is it running?

It's definitely better, thanks. What glitches are left over with their Facebook flash games are looking to be problems with the actual company putting out those games. We don't see anything weird with the rest of the computer, right now.

Honestly, 5 days.... you would have a much more responsive computer, 100% clean (not necessarily the case now) by backing up data and reinstalling Windows in the first place. Just saying...

Let me rephrase the above post a bit. John does amazing work here in computer security. Don't get me wrong. John's probably the only one around here that can fix it. But seriously, the methodology (on average) takes more than 4 days.

My approach is different i guess, i would've just given detailed description and method of backup and reinstall, done the first time it may be just as slow, but the results are far better.

An old XP or any windows for that matter, benefits massively from a reinstall and virtually ensures no malware 100%.

Also what's the reference to rewardsarchive.com?

This suggestion might be best but it makes us nervous, man. We have never actually backed up anything. We've got zero experience or know-how involved with it. And it's got a bad cd rom drive. The computer is so old and there's just so much on it. We can't even defrag it anymore because there's so little space. And it's just years, and years, and years of family photos and records and programs and this and that and the other. And we have no experience in backing it up.

I don't even know if we've got the software for the version of Windows that went with it. Honestly, even on my new laptop, I failed to be able to back the thing up when it recently got redone and the prompt has been there for a few months, I think. I had no idea what went wrong but it didn't work. This house is very low on technical savvy. We're basically just sitting here slobbering all over ourselves, occasionally trying to answer the phone by talking into loaves of bread or vacuum the carpet with shower curtain rods. It's not pretty. We're not smart people. It's shocking we haven't blown our house up trying to make the coffee. We should all have been born circa the time wheels were first put on barrows.

 

[johnb35]

If you have no space left on your drive then you have 2 options.

1. Get a new drive, reinstall windows and use the drive you have now for storage since all your files are on it. You can do this providing your case has room for another drive.

2. Get a new bigger drive and clone your existing drive to it and you'll have more space.

3. However, if its been a few years since a fresh install has been done, then I highly recommend a fresh install of windows no matter what you do.

 

[spirit]

This suggestion might be best but it makes us nervous, man. We have never actually backed up anything. We've got zero experience or know-how involved with it.

You really need to start thinking about backing up your files. You never know when the drive they are all stored will die and take the files stored on the drive with it.