10-29-2011, 02:13 AM
(10-29-2011, 01:55 AM)Gnollguy Wrote: Well if it were 5 years ago I would have run hijackthis, I have no idea if that is still something that is useful nowadays though. In the past I ran into stuff that would do things like that all the time via hidden services and registry changes.
I never thought about running hijackthis, but sifting through those logs would have been far more irritating than just reformating her laptop. My wife only had a couple of spreadsheets and word documents she needed to save. I put those on a flash drive.
The reformat is done, and now I'm just waiting on the endless Windows updates. When this is all over I'm going to make Firefox her default browser and install Adblock+. She browses far too many "free coupon" websites, which I'm sure is where this piece of nastiness was picked up from.