Re: Oline AV

engineman1@xxxxxxx wrote: 
My girlfriend has a machine with Win 2 K, 800 MHz. 512 mb ram, 20 gb
HD.  She
let her NAV expire and now it's infected with at least 2 viruses and
will
not boot. I've tried several bootable anti virus disks but they do no
good.
apparently the viruses are newer than the AV programs.
I can get her computer  to boot with Reatogo and run from the CD but
the AV
program in Reatogo is also  outdated. I can get online with IE but if I
try to
run a program like Trend  house call it won't work because it cannot
write
it's applet to the CD. does  anyone know of an AV program that will run
just from
the internet without having  to download anything?: Any better ideas?
Reformatting is a last choice as she  does not have the OS disk or the
finances to
buy one, plus she does not want to  lose her family pictures.
Engineman

You could try the following.
Go to http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2
and download the free version of AVG, install it, run it and it will want to update itself. Let it, then do a complete scan. If it works, you've solved the problem, if it doesn't you've lost nothing except some net time. You don't need the CD for this.

AVG free is one of the best AV programs around, and its free for home use, and so are all the updates.

--

Regards, Gary Wooding
(To reply by email, change feet to foot in my address)
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