When is enough, enough?

[TishB]

@ Tish
Not sure if it has been mentioned, but you may want to hide your Email from the forum.
Settings/ uncheck allow users to email me.
Nasty reality is Email Harvesters for Spamming purposes.
Just saying.

Aye, I've corrected that. Thank you Bob. I admit I initially thought a visible email address was sorta odd. Considering the purpose of the site. I assumed it was locked and secure. What better place to study what the the opposition is up to...the old keep your friends close but your enemies closer sorta thing. I concluded in error that perhaps it was there so one could perhaps be spanked in private rather than publicly. Not that I've ever regarded being spanked as a bad thing...but there are some souls that are highly sensitive and I'm sure you've met a few. I just fell on the wrong side of my own argument this time, yet again. Tells you why I don't dream of going to Vegas or play lotto.
May I ask another question? What do you know of the program called Hot Spot? Does the protection I have with the current apps I have make Hot Spot redundant? Or would Hot Spot interfere with what I have? The thought of masking my IP feels good, I admit.
Oh, and don't worry about feeling obligated to send me on a cruise anywhere. I saw The Poseidon Adventure the first day it opened in the theaters. It assured me I had no future in the Navy or as a pirate.

[TishB]

On behalf of my fellow forum members...You're welcome! 

Remember...

1) Put in chest.
2) Send to virus lab.
3) Re-scan at a later date.
4) Restore if safe.

Thank you for the welcome and I will always remember your advise. I promise. I just need to learn more so I won't have the need to follow them often. Again...My deepest gratitude. 

[bob3160]

@Tish
Unless you're using public WiFi, Hot Spot isn't really needed and will probably slow you down.
Might be nice to keep handy for the times you aren't on your home and secure network.
schmidthouse deserves the credit for hiding your email address.

[snowflake1]

Happy New Year to all!
Hi, I'm a new member and if I've posted in the wrong group, I am sorry. I wasn't certain where my questions would fit. The closest answer I've found after a morning of searching and reading was one by Pondus in the virus/worms section.
I recently acquired a nasty little thing called recycler. I spent an entire week ridding myself of it and in the process perhaps a few essential things I must have needed to carry on as usual. I ended up opting to simply wipe out my system and reinstall windows XP.

Did you manage to set SP3 installed and fully update your Patches from the Windows site ?
 
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Albeit with a good deal more time to research and I decided to use Avast, I didn't trust my other antivirus any longer

May one ask what program you did have?

Pondus essentially said, I hope, never use two antivirus apps at the same time

,

I see on many of the Malware removal specialist forums that people have (unwisely) run two ore  more antivirus prograsm on their machins then wondered why they had gotten infectedd !!

You need one  anitvirus program and run it in Real time, plus a good but not overpowering  selection of antimalware  programs
That said, how is your machine currently?