Something has happened to my pc - it has gone very slow. About a month back, my son started playing some of the flash games, but on exiting one, I had a blue screen of death with a memory dump. Then, the computer took its time to start up. Then, the computer would restart itself at ever shortening intervals. I had pc-cillin installed- no viruses found! Adaware found some data exploit object things, and deleted them- that solved the problem briefly. On chatting to an IT friend far far away, he said that trend was useless and to go for Norton. Well, I decided to try out kaspersky as I get this free with the open university - it picked up java trojan thingies. The computer hasn't really improved performance, so I contemplated a re-install. Started to look for files to back up from c drive to another drive when I peeked into the windows folder - downloaded programs - housecall (another av from trend) was damaged as was the java runtime environment 1.3.1 (though 1.4.0 was fine (said installed)). I think the best thing is for a clean reinstall on a format c:
I think I will start this tonight - so wish me luck. I might be gone sometime!!!