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London Heathrow\'s 60th Birthday Event
EHM-0654 Murray:
Final update to the event page has been made, all the downloads from Fly UK are in place (thanks Luke, best of luck on the night...)
EHM-E4S:
A problem has occured.
I am 90% sure I can make my flight, just one problem has occured. A virus has got onto my computer.
I have two computers in my house. This one hasn't got flight simulator on it, the other one has, which now has a virus.
I've called the "computer guy" and he says he'll be in at 09:00(z) tomorrow. My flight is at 18:45z, so if he gets it fixed, I can do the flight. If he can't, I can't.
I'll let everyone know if I can't do it by 12:00z, just in case anybody will fill me in. I'd really like to do this flight, as it's a once in a decade chance, so hopefully it's just spyware that can easily be defeated.
If any of you can help, here is whats wrong:
computer will switch on
Desktop background has been switched by idiots who gave me the virus
can't access internet
big brother (spyware) is watching me.
all programs are there, but not clickable.
I really hope I don't have to do all that uninstall install.
I have Norton, but it's a bit like EuroHolidays. It goes on holiday when it wants to.
EHM-0641 Rico:
I just saw you flying online outta LHR :%
EHM-0654 Murray:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-E4S
A problem has occured.
...
all programs are there, but not clickable.
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Norton...
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Matt,
Given you're young, I'm gonna guess that software purchasing isn't your "domain" (it's up to your folks is what I'm hinting at...)
As an IT professional I have nothing but disdain for anything written by the Symantec Corporation. It's universally slow and memory hoggy, and uninstalling is a pig of a job (and the company I work for uses Symantec AV Corporate... not my choice I hasten to add)
Try to convince your folks to buy either BitDefender AV or Kaspersky AV. I recommend both equally (I prefer Kaspersky but use BItDefender... go figure...)
Now, when you say your backdrop has changed, and you can't click on programs (I assume you mean on the desktop) that sounds for all the world like the old "take a screengrab of the desktop, make that screengrab the backdrop, hide/delete all the icons on the desktop..." gag. Does the start menu still work? Use the Windows key (with the flag on it) rather than the mouse...
Check your profile ( C:\Documents and Settings\<username> ) in Windows Explorer (WinKey+E) see if there *is* a Desktop folder in there, and if it still has contents... Have you tried booting into safe mode (with network) and seen if Network works OK there. It may not be quite as bad as it first looks...
Finally, there are a lot of "free" anti-virus tools out there if you still have Internet access. Avast! is free for home users, works well enough, and is what I use on all my FS PCs (I run a total of 5 PCs for flight sim, needless to say I only use BitDefender on two - my main PC (this one) and my laptop, as per the licensing agreement that comes with BitDefender... all the rest have Avast!)
EHM-E4S:
thanks murray!
It is up to my parents mainly.
I had norton antivirus, then it ran out during this. I'll see what happens.
Thanks for the info:>
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