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My wife's sister's laptop is riddled with viruses, malware and adware. She's accessed the net for nearly a year with next to no protection, only the Firewall is active. It's now got to the state where access to the net is blocked, the CD/DVD drive pops open a few seconds after closing, even with a disc installed, and she cannot copy files from a memory stick to her desktop but can open and read / save them. When she tries to access the net her screen fills with popups to the extent where the only thing left to do is close down, the Laptop is completely useless, it's only a year old. She now has to go to the local Library to access her emails and pay bills.
She has asked me for help, as she has no spare money to take it to a shop, but as we live over 200 miles apart it's not going to be easy. I've thought about downloading MSE to a Memory Stick and snail mailing it to her. Can MSE be run from a memory stick without the need to access the net for updates before scanning the hard drive. I have Norton 360 installed so cannot test it myself.
The sister cannot understand why her computer has got into the state it has. To use her own words "All I use it for is emails, Pay Bills, download music and games but I think my old man looks at those nasty sites". Enough said I thought.
She has asked me for help, as she has no spare money to take it to a shop, but as we live over 200 miles apart it's not going to be easy. I've thought about downloading MSE to a Memory Stick and snail mailing it to her. Can MSE be run from a memory stick without the need to access the net for updates before scanning the hard drive. I have Norton 360 installed so cannot test it myself.
The sister cannot understand why her computer has got into the state it has. To use her own words "All I use it for is emails, Pay Bills, download music and games but I think my old man looks at those nasty sites". Enough said I thought.
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