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What qualifications does your technician have?

> J

Don't know, but he is from PC Service call for PC World. Not costing
anything, as it'e still under guarantee

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> "pat" <> wrote in message
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>> Have already run spybot and AVG. Have deleted the trojan virus in safe
>> mode with system restore disabled, but it still comes back at 13.34 every
>> day. Strange!!!!!!
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>> "James" <> wrote in message
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>>> "pat" <> wrote in message
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>>>>I have got an engineer coming tomorrow to replace my motherboard on my
>>>>computer (Windows XP, Packard Bell). Something to do with a duff battery
>>>>that should remember everything when my computer starts up. I have at
>>>>the moment got a trojan horse downloader virus, which I have had for
>>>>ages and keep deleting the file, but it comes back at exactly the same
>>>>time every day, after it's deleted, it's gone until the next day. Does
>>>>anyone know if, by replaceing the motherboard, there is any chance that
>>>>my virus will be gone for good afterwards. Also, will having a new
>>>>motherboard change anything that is on my computer now, ie: settings,
>>>>installations or saved files and emails.
>>>>
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>>> Certainly NOT! - Replace the motherboard battery to cure that problem
>>> with the motherboard not remembering settings (; - To remove spyware run
>>> Spybot - virus check the system with an up to date virus checker and
>>> allow it to delete or heal the virus. Replacing the motherboard will
>>> have no effect on a virus - the virus is most certainly on your hard
>>> drive - so the worst scenerio is to wipe your hard drive and to
>>> re-install XP - You will still have a virus on your hard drive, after a
>>> motherboard replacement the chances are you may have to re-install XP
>>> anyway -
>>> --
>>> James Jenkins
>>> www.tamarsolutions.co.uk
>>> ..........................................