Your friend must have some way of restoring the operating system. If it is a HP or other
known brand contact the manufacturer for advice on restoring the system.
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TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2009 - Update Services
http://taurarian.mvps.org
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How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
Computer Maintenance: Acronis / Diskeeper / Paragon / Raxco
| The virus was removed and I can't fix the damage it did to IE since videos
| wont play flash wont work when it is installed so I want to know if any media
| center disk will work to fix the problem. I dont want to do any thing yet
| untill I know if it will with out making the os illegal. She has a product
| key on the case of the computer but no disk. so can I use any disk and her
| product key to fix the problem?
|
| "TaurArian" wrote:
|
| > Before you do anything, you have to get rid of the virus
| >
| > Microsoft Malware Protection Center
| > Threat Research and Response
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/
| >
| > Trend Micro House Call:
| >
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
| > Panda ActiveScan;
| >
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
| > McAfee FreeScan:
| >
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
| > Kaspersky Labs On-line Virus Checker:
| >
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
| > BitDefender Online Scan:
| >
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
| >
| > If you need assistance after identifying the virus that has infected the machine -
post to
| >
| > Security - Viruses
| > OE client -
| > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus
| > or
| >
| > Web client -
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...e99-3241-4584-87eb-b55d8ffb3c8c&lang=en&cr=us
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| > TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2009 - Update Services
| >
http://taurarian.mvps.org
| > ======================================
| > How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
| > Computer Maintenance: Acronis / Diskeeper / Paragon / Raxco
| >
| >
| > | > | My friend has Windows Xp media center 2005 and she got a virus and now she
| > | can't get IE to be reconized by any sites. Flash player wont work when it is
| > | up dated and all sites say IE needs to be updated but she is running the
| > | latest version I found a copy of media center and was wondering if her
| > | product key would work or if there was a fix for this. I've tryed installing
| > | IE again but nothing is working any advice would be greatly apriciated.
| >
| >
| >
