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[quote who="kona0197" reply="93" id="2830522"]Actually turning off Automatic Updates is always a good idea.[/quote] Agreed! It was only meant to assure her that shuttling service packs on a CD was unnecessary. ElanaAhova has a 2002 installation CD. I think SP2 was released in mid-2004. Of course, I also recall that Windows Firewall wasn't available until it was released with SP2, but I could be wrong about that, too.

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[quote who="kona0197" reply="90" id="2830507"]You really don't need to download anything but SP3. if I remember correctly it includes all the previous fixes that SP1 and SP2 had.[/quote] "Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Windows XP Service Pack 1a (SP1a) must be preinstalled before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)." How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389 )

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[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="80" id="2830173"]Any suggestions, wisdom, on the order I do all the things to get back some of my system?[/quote] I'm sorry that the registry hack didn't succeed. Don't worry about the service packs - Microsoft will deliver them via its Automatic Updates service once WinXP is installed and online again. Just be sure you have the Windows product key available. I recommend that you Reinstall WinXP without reformatting the

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[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="72" id="2829617"]Would I get rid of this if I reinstalled, or repaired windows from my XP home edition CD?[/quote] Sorry, I overlooked this earlier. Yes, the trojan would be gone, but you'd have an unpatched 2002 WinXP operating system and no applications installed. You'd have to update XP with the service packs and security patches, then re-install your applications. The worst of it would be the lack of a functional Wireless Zero Configuration for your

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="71" id="2829583"]It will not always work since many of the bugs will not allow you to run any EXE, but for those that do, that seems like a quick way to get to repair mode and disable the sucker![/quote] I'm not sure we're on the same page here, Dr Guy. You can't use these keys to run an arbitrary program, unless of course you append your command to the command to start the shell, like the trojan did. I don't really know what will happen if HKEY_Current_User

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It does sound like trolling, doesn't it? This problem didn't originate with Facebook.com. It was probably an ordinary trojan that was delivered in an email which seemed like a genuine communication from Facebook. A Linux user WOULD have been safer because (1) most Linux distros nag you or prevent you from running as root, and Linux true-believers will taunt you (or worse) if they discover that you do run as root; and (2) there are fewer Linux users than Windows users, and many variati

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Please don't cry. I know that this must be very frustrating for you, but your computer will recover if you're patient. [quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="72" id="2829617"]I don't use windows explorer, but it is on my pc. Was the dormant IE the vehicle the bug used to initially stay in my PC?[/quote] Explorer.exe is the program that provides the graphical user interface in Windows. It is the desktop, the start menu, the tooltips, and of course the file browser. It is a differ

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[quote who="Istari" reply="272" id="2829259"] Quoting DrJBHL, reply 271 What she did was theft, plain and simple.[/quote] Nothing in IP case law is ever plain and simple. If someone nicks your car, it's obvious that he has the car and you don't. If someone copies your sound recording, it's not at all clear what exactly has been taken from you. You haven't lost the use of the song as you did the use of your car, so it's cost you nothing to replace it. You can argue convincing

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This is your trojan: [1] Troj/Oficla-BC [sophos.com] http://origin-www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojoficlabc.html Your antivirus missed it because it's less than a week old (more about this later): [2] Email with new password from Facebook Support contains trojan [mxlab.eu] http://blog.mxlab.eu/tag/sasfis/ It is started along with the Windows shell. The shell is the program that makes Windows look and behave like Wi